Honesty and authenticity are a big deal for me.

Most people would look at an animal in a cage and instinctively feel that it should be set free. . . . It's a dangerous world out there, filled with predators. . . . What would you prefer? A comfortable, safe, warm, cosy life in a cage, or an uncertain life of freedom.

The sky was the colour of sad weddings.

But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead.

I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.

I erased the thought from my mind, but I couldn't undo the fact that I'd had the thought in the first place.

Real life is physical. Give me books instead. Give me the invisibility of the contents of books, the thoughts, the ideas, the images. Let me become part of a book. . . . an intertextual being: a book cyborg, or, considering that books aren't cybernetic, perhaps a bibliorg.