One hears about life all the time from different people with very different narrative gifts.

Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.

I get a warm feeling among my books.

Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.

It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what they think happens to them.

One of the worst things about life is not how nasty the nasty people are. You know that already. It is how nasty the nice people can be.

The whole idea of interviews is in itself absurd - one cannot answer deep questions about what one's life was like - one writes novels about it.

One passes through the world knowing few, if any, of the important things about even the people with whom one has been from time to time in the closest intimacy.

Parents. . . are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early years.

He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Selflove seems so often unrequited.

Books do furnish a room.

you got one life so dont stop living it!

Life is like a road, It has highways and detours.

Somehow I find the energy to continue the run. Part of the high that comes after finishing a long run is overcoming the wall, that point when your body crashes but your mind keeps moving you forward.

I don't want to see the uncut version of anything.

When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.

Don't get stuck and don't worry.

I think they should create a holiday for friends-with-benefits relationships. Because I feel like Valentine's Day is, maybe it's a day to stay home and cry.

If I don't channel pain into a song, I play my guitar or play the piano or play my drums, or go swimming.

Give the Germans five deutschmarks and they will save it. But give the British £5 and they will borrow £25 and spend it.

I think indie films are really important, because they show the studios and the audiences when they see them, great stories. Really interesting, small stories.