Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.

At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.

Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?

I do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I think are important, and therefore I want people to take them seriously. And to read it twice of course is taking it seriously.

He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life,where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet.

Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?

Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don't understand.