Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.

Human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capably only of fractured perceptions. Partial beings, in all the senses of that phrase.

The frustrating part of being tagged 'controversial' is people go looking for trouble where there isn't any to look for.

I'm definitely post-something.

I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do.

It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.

Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally supposed that something always gets lost in translation; I cling, obstinately, to the notion that something can also be gained.