I like naming characters.

My parents were sixty years married.

I'm not recognised that much. I'm just a bald man in glasses and there's a rash of them in Dublin. It'd be different if I had a mohican.

I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires.

I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will stand by itself and should be concentrated.

You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people were really moved by it.

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