- I think there is something unusually intimate about the writer-reader relationship, because it's premised on the fact that when you or I pick up a book we descend into the writer's head for maybe eight or ten hours. And if that writer is descending honestly enough into himself, we see aspects of him that we never see of our parents or siblings, perhaps.
- [on his Graham Greene-focused book 'The Man Within My Head'] The reason I wrote this book was that I suspect everybody has people in their heads. In some cases it's a singer, an artist or an actor, or a figure from history - somehow there are these people we've never met whom we feel know us more intimately than our own friends and family do. And nowadays, in a celebrity culture, it's perhaps more pronounced than ever.
- Home lies in the things you carry with you everywhere and not the ones that tie you down.
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