I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I can't bear to read them, because I've spent too long with them already. I'm not advertising them very well, am I?

I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.

Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.

Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every possible way.

Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.

Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can't be unthought.

Life is lived forward but is judged in reverse.