For me, [deep structures] might be something very simply to do with the split in my family. That's why I'm always thinking about opposites. It's so childish, really, but that might be simply what it is.

Desire is never final, desire is imprecise and impractical [...]

When I see my friends engaging in a Twitter war for an afternoon, I think that would destroy me for a month.

Your mid-thirties is a good time because you know a fair amount, you have some self-control.

The arena of women's lives is somewhat more intimate. If a woman goes out with an incredibly attractive man and they break up, that woman is not more attractive to men. It's completely irrelevant to them. That's an example of the way women's minds work.

The world is now multicultural the same way the world is round. It's not a selling point, it's not a 'quirky' feature, it's not a cynical marketing ploy, it's not an artistic statement, it's not even a plot device. It's a fact, like seedless grapes.

It seems to me now that the deep structures [in writing] are often subconscious and set in childhood.