No Pain Is Too Small If It

I'm Not Trying To Uncover The Facts Of My Life But To Discover The Dramatic Truth Of The Situations I Was In.

Proust Is A Hero Of Mine. I Read 'a La Recherche' In One Go, And I'm A Very Slow Reader. It Had An Astonishing Impact, Reading It On My Own And Being My Main Company. I Think Proust Is The Most Intelligent Person To Ever Have Written A Novel.

Detachment Is What Interests Me, Seeing How People Couldn't Have Been Any Other Way, How They Were The Product Of Forces That They Had No Control Over.

It's No Use Imagining That Bringing Great Writers Together Inevitably Precipitates Great Conversation.

The Booker 2011 Is Of No More Interest To Me Than The World Heavyweight Championship, Which I'm Not Going To Win Either. It's Irrelevant.