I, a late riser, fantasise about getting up every morning at 5 A.M. to fetch the horses in from the fields.

I think the bravest thing to write about is nothing, just to write a book in which nothing happens.

The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever you're trying to tell them.

There's an overwhelming sense of paranoia in the suburbs. People there seem so much more paranoid to me than people in the city about their kids being kidnapped or their parties being raided or their drinks being spiked. There's a kind of hysteria about that.

Teenagers are very dark, I think. That's all the goth and emo stuff. They're experiencing a lot of stuff that adults experience, but in a much more raw way. It's that extremity that I'm interested in, to be able to go down so far and come up so quickly.

As a person with the retentive mental capacity of a goldfish and a dislike of repetition, I frequently make use of the thesaurus built into my Microsoft Word U.K. Software.