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

You don't have favourites among your children, but you do have allies.

I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them.

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.

I don't actually believe in the extension of consciousness after death.

There's a perception that novels can't usually allow for your kind of absolute attention to detail.

Don't confuse honours with achievement.