My Heart Broke Open And History Fell

You Start At The Stupid End Of The Book, And If You're Lucky You Finish At The Smart End.

Sometimes We Feel We Straddle Two Cultures; At Other Times, That We Fall Between Two Stools.

If Bigots Behave Like Bigots, It's Not A Huge Surprise.

I Always Thought Storytelling Was Like Juggling [...] You Keep A Lot Of Different Tales In The Air, And Juggle Them Up And Down, And If You're Good You Don't Drop Any.

A Novel, I Think, Is Partly About The Contemporary And Partly About The Eternal, And It's The Balance Of That That's Difficult To Achieve.