A sports writer is a stylist of some kind. He is trying to convey mood and character and emotion.

Anything processed by memory is fiction.

My medium is prose, not the novel.

Everything I write, I believe instinctively, is to some extent collage. Meaning, ultimately, is a matter of adjacent data.

I don’t know what’s the matter with me, why I’m so adept at distance, why I feel so remote from things, why life feels like a rumor.

A book should either allow us to escape existence or teach us how to endure it.

To me, the moment you're talking about nonfiction you're talking about reality.

If I'm reading a book and it seems truly interesting, I tend to start reading back to front in order not to be too deeply under the sway of progress.

Momentum, in literary mosaic, derives not from narrative but from the subtle, progressive buildup of thematic resonances.

The absence of plot leaves the reader room to think about other things.

Resolution and conclusion are inherent in a plot-driven narrative.

Every problem gets solved with time.

It is easy to give without loving yet DIFFICULT TO LOVE without GIVING.After all Love is a Verb, it must be demonstrated genuinely.

It takes an athlete to dance, but an artist to be a dancer

A global democracy works only when countries trust one another.

. . . be absolute moderne.

Look for an occupation that you like, and you will not need to labor for a single day in your life.

And when the fog's over and the stars and the moon come out at night it'll be a beautiful sight.

We are in the middle of the most transforming technological event since the capture of fire.

We need more pessimism that the future might be a lot worse, and we need more optimism that the future might be better.

I've been a member of the Labour Party sixty five years, and I remain in it, but I think it's all about campaigning for justice and peace, and if you do that, you get a lot of support.