“Here, when I say I never want to be without you, somewhere else I am saying I never want to be without you again.”

I will beg, will take to my knees, will listen to snow stroking air, a sky of gasps, will open my mouth, swallow, somewhere else the sky is falling, somewhere else it gets back up.

People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.

My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else’s books.

I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.

You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom.

Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.

If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.

Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.

What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.