The lust of the eye. The best photographs were, to me, like an experience of drowning.

Although I'm not fluent in sign language by a long way, I could have a fairly decent conversation.

The monotony of staying in one place is the best thing for writing a novel. Having regular habits, a kind of security, but especially no big surprises, no shocks.

I don't think I've ever seen a person having a serious conversation on a cellphone. It's like a kiddie thing, a complete time waster.

I think that love isn't what you think it is when you're in your twenties or even thirties.

One of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours.

I always found myself in the company of Australians, who were like a reminder that I'd touched bottom.