I asked him why he was a priest, and he said if you have to work for anyone, an absentee boss is best.

“If everything I have become were not machine-made I might be able to take the r…”

“I go on writing so that I will always have something to read.”

“I was at a party in 1989 and Ian McEwan, Martin Amis and Salman Rushdie were si…”

“We are told not to privilege one story above another. All the stories must be t…”