I don't write at the library, because I smoke when I work or would like the possibility of a smoke. Also, I need to be at my own desk.

If rationality were the criterion for things being allowed to exist, the world would be one gigantic field of soya beans!

I'm attracted to the past.

Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous.

There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.

We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.

Life in a box is better than no life at all... I expect.