There are things in life we don't understand, and when we meet them, all we can do is let them alone.
There's a sense in all my novels that nothing is certain.
I don't think they'll ever make a retro Bond.
The last thing we ever learn about ourselves is our effect.
To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.
Is that a good definition of marking the ageing watershed? That moment when you realize - quite rationally, quite unemotionally - that the world in the not-so-distant future will not contain you: that the trees you planted will continue growing but you will not be there to see them.