Storytelling has a narcotic power.

It is perfectly legitimate to write novels which are essentially prose poems, but in the end, I think, a novel is like a car, and if you buy a car and grow flowers in it, you're forgetting that the car is designed to take you somewhere else.

You can always spot a fool, for he is a man who will tell you he knows who is going to win an election.

To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.

You find out what you think by talking to yourself.

Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness.

I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.