Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.

You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.

As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.

The past is always tense, the future perfect.

Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.

Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is what you leave on the page.

Time is how you spend your love.

I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.

Don't confuse honours with achievement.

Pulchritude--beauty where you would least suspect it, hidden in a word that looked like it should signify a belch or a skin infection.

The secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer.

A smartphone is an addictive device which traps a soul into a lifeless planet full of lives

There is no magic herb that makes a brave man. Courage is knowing that what you do is necessary. Don't doubt yourself, Shadow. There is more valor in your heart than you realize.

A comedian's a comedian. They're a very kind of cynical bunch. I guess that's why I like them.

Carney is like a graveyard where everyone already owns their plots and has built houses on top of them.

I am isolated as an artist, not as a person.

The diminution of the reality of class, however socially desirable in many respects, seems to have the practical effect of diminishing our ability to see people in their difference and specialness.

I work sometimes with dealers and sometimes people just come to me. A lot of the commissions, they just know me. They have seen something and they just approach me.

I don't think I'm in any position to give anybody advice about anything.

The storyteller makes no choice, soon you will not hear his voice, his job is to shed light, and not to master

Love isn't logical, or even our choice. Love chooses us. Sometimes things have to get worse before they get better.