People Never Remeber Happiness With The Care

Irony Is The Hardest Addiction Of All. Forget Heroin. Just Try Giving Up Irony, The Deep-down Need To Mean Two Things At Once, To Be In Two Places At Once, Not To Be There For The Catastrophe Of A Fixed Meaning.

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

I'm Really Not Responsible For What Mental Operation People Have When They're Reading My Books Other Than The Ones Which Are Created By Literary Effects.

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.

Looking After Children Can Be A Subtle Way Of Giving Up... They Become The Whole Ones, The Well Ones, The Postponement Of Happiness, The Ones Who Won't Drink Too Much, Give Up, Get Divorced, Become Mentally Ill. The Part Of Oneself That's Fighting Against Decay And Depression Is Transferred To Guarding Them From Decay And Depression. In The Meantime One Decays And Gets Depressed.