My novels come from within me; they are things I feel I want to do.

If you're from Dublin, for example, chances are you live with your family, if you're lucky enough to, right up to the mid-20s. And most of the people I know, when they finally sort of set off on their own, they don't stray all that far.

I wouldn't go out of my way to experience the indignity of middle-age just because it might be good meat for a story.

It was a sign of growing up, when the dark made no more difference to you than the day.

Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child.

I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.

To claim that music is more important than oxygen would be trite and sentimental. It would also be true.