It's not in good taste to have talking ghosts in a grown-up novel.

When I write I am trying to express my way of being in the world. This is primarily a process of elimination: once you have removed all the dead language, the second-hand dogma, the truths that are not your own but other people's, the mottos, the slogans, the out-and-out lies of your nation, the myths of your historical moment - once you have removed all that warps experience into a shape you do not recognise and do not believe in - what you are left with is something approximating the truth of your own conception.

Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale.

Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of ones own resources.

When the male organ of a man stands erect, two thirds of his intelect go away. And one third of his religion.

People profess to have certain political positions, but their conservatism or liberalism is really the least interesting thing about them.

All tastes are expressions of belief.