Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated.

It is a truism throughout the civilized galaxy that when you go to the police, your troubles really begin.

A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt.

It takes me a long time to get with a landscape. It took me 20 years before I wrote anything about Ibiza, and I haven't written about Oregon yet, although I've been there 20 years - possibly I'm almost due.

I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck.

Why in God's name should a God be praised if he is only performing his Godly function?

I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing.