No Pain Is Too Small

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.

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

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.

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.