I don't believe in synergy. I believe that things have to be specific to the medium that they're in.

I like extremely effeminate dogs like terriers or schnauzers. I make an exception for giant schnauzers and big poodles. Basically, I like dogs which can be dyed day-glo colours.

You always have to find something to say about the subject and in seven cases out of ten there is nothing to say.

I'm not against architecture per se, I'm just against bad architecture.

I like looking at the countryside as well as anyone... a little countryside goes a long way, but it's almost like the DNA of a civilisation is in its cities.

I think television is a medium which has the potential to do great things but has been traduced by these... terrible people who rise through the ranks.

I genuinely find it difficult to think of places that I'd never want to see again. It might be because part of my career has been concerned with writing about topography.

The only bright feature of cultural relativism's triumph is that it has become establishment orthodoxy and will thus one day be derided, resisted and overthrown.

I do make myself be interested in places in a way that I don't make myself be interested in people.

When I started writing fiction it always seemed in retrospect (I didn't realise at the time) that it was always caused by environments rather than by incidents and characters.

If you have slightly pathological interest in all the components of places, it forces you to engage with them in a way that perhaps otherwise you wouldn't, and that's the only way I can put it.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man

It ate at whatever was warm nearby, and then the coldness settled in permanently. You learned to live with it

How could he live never knowing what it would be like to hold her close and sleep with her the whole night through?

Faith is not being sure where you're going but going anyway.

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

I like to wear tight jeans. Most of my stuff is pretty slim fit.

A bulger of a place it is. The number of the ships beat me all hollow, and looked for all the world like a big clearing in the West, with the dead trees all standing.

You are a principal work, a fragment of [Goddess herself], you have in yourself a part of [her]. Why then are you ignorant of your high birth?

I think sensuality is a part of me. It's not all of me, but it's a part of who I am.

I think 20th century media were about tricking people - and the beauty of the Internet is you can't lie anymore.