The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt to increase the sum of what it is possible to think. Books become good when they go to this edge and risk falling over it -when they endanger the artist by reason of what he has, or has not, artistically dared.

Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.

One minute you've got a lucky star watching over you and the next instant it's done a bunk.

We must conclude that it is not only a particular political ideology that has failed, but the idea that men and women could ever define themselves in terms that exclude their spiritual needs.

When you throw everything up in the air anything becomes possible.

The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.

There was a series called 'Game of Thrones' which was very popular here in the United States, a post-Tolkien kind of thing. It was garbage, yet very addictive garbage - because there's lots of violence, all the women take their clothes off all the time, and it's kind of fun.