Occupation: Novelist Birth: 1970
If you look at the whole life of the planet, we - you know, Man - has only been around for a few blinks of an eye. So if the infection wipes us all o….
Well, if there's an infinite amount of chances for something to happen, then eventually it will happen - no matter how small the likelihood..
Dream life, I realized, was only confusing when you were awake. It was from the perspective of waking life that dream life seemed fractured and lacki….
Waking was the most reliable part of a dream, as built into dreams as death is to life. You dream, you wake: you live, you die..
If I'd learnt one thing from travelling, it was that the way to get things done was to go ahead and do them. Don't talk about going to Borneo. Book a….
There's this saying: in an all-blue world, colour doesn't exist... If something seems strange, you question it; but if the outside world is too dista….
I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember of that trip is what I bothered to write down..
I knew my affection for the Philippines was equally as telling: a democracy on paper, apparently well ordered, regularly subverted by irrational chao….
Of course witnessing poverty was the first to be ticked off the list. Then I had to graduate to the more obscure stuff. Being in a riot was something….
Trust me, it's paradise. This is where the hungry come to feed. For mine is a generation that circles the globe and searches for something we haven't….
Every dream that anyone ever has is theirs alone and they never manage to share it. And they never manage to remember it either. Not truly or accurat….
Though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the evilest motherfucker in the valley.
Vietnam, me love you long time. All day, all night, me love you long time. (...) Dropping acid on the Mekong Delta, smoking grass through a rifle bar….
Personally I don't think there's any real intrinsic difference between comic books, movies, theatre, novels. I know there's sure to be some differenc….
I do all this alone, everything I achieve, I achieve alone, because it's my head I'm locked into, and I share this space with nobody but myself..
Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled..
Escape through travel works. Almost from the moment I boarded my flight, life in England became meaningless. Seat-belt signs lit up, problems switche….
By the time the plane was airborne I'd forgotten England even existed..
Normally, small talk is enough for me to form an opinion of someone. I make quick judgments, often completely wrong, and then stick by them rigidly..
As for me... I'm fine. I have bad dreams, but I never saw Mister Duck again. I play video games. I smoke a little dope. I got my thousand-yard stare.….
When you develop an infatuation for someone you always find a reason to believe that this is exactly the person for you. It doesn’t need to be a good….