The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

If photography is to be likened to perception, this is not because the former is a natural process but because the latter is also coded.

Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.

American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100oC

I discovered ... that a novel has nothing to do with words in the first instance. Writing a novel is a cosmological matter, like the story told by Genesis (we all have to choose our role models, as Woody Allen puts it).

I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to tell a story.

I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.