I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing.
Literature is analysis after the event.
I am your original autodidact.
I haven't got the energy to write now.
Don't look at the package. Look at what's inside.
To love--to fall--is not a question. To touch--to kiss--to speak--those are questions.
Our job, as writers is to do our jobs.
It's only words... unless they're true.
When I started out I was a failed actor.
People only speak to get something.
I hate vacations. There's nothing to do.
I won't ever do e-mail.
There is a profound and ineradicable taint of antisemitism in the British.
A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't?
Words his soul danced to.
You have to learn to recognize your own depths.
Fiction is meant to illuminate, to explode, to refresh.
The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
A myth is something that has never happened, but is happening all the time.
The conquest of the earth is not a pretty thing.
It's very rare that publications double their frequency.
