When forging money, I had always salved my conscience by concluding that I was merely extending the lie of commerce.

Murder and hate are as deeply buried in the human heart as love, perhaps more so, and in truth they're rather entwined, and if you tried to separate them, you'd be missing something important and human.

I'm afraid a lot of people have lost a lot of money over the years betting on me.

I do feel like a fraud a lot of the time because I've never been interested in people who say 'I'm a writer', 'I'm an artist'. Too much is made of the role and not enough of the work. We are such a celebrity-driven age and a status-driven age, that the status becomes more important than the actual work.

Literary prizes serve a purpose if they allow for discussion of books.

A happy man has no past, while an unhappy man has nothing else.

Love is a glimpse of hope. To love is to hope. When we abandon hope, we cease to exist.