When we lost something precious, and we'd looked and looked and still couldn't find it, then we didn't have to be completely heartbroken. We still ha….

I don't have a deep link with England like, say, Jonathan Coe or Hanif Kureishi might demonstrate. For me it is like a mythical place..

What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint..

Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them f….

All I know is that I've wasted all these years looking for something, a sort of trophy I'd get only if I really, really did enough to deserve it. But….

I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers..

You need to remember that. If you’re to have decent lives, you have to know who you are and what lies ahead of you, every one of you..

As I say, I have never in all these years thought of the matter in quite this way; but then it is perhaps in the nature of coming away on a trip such….

We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all..

Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers..

If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of..

Perhaps there are those who are able to go about their lives unfettered by such concerns. But for those like us, our fate is to face the world as orp….

Love isn't about when you first meet. It's about the many, many years you spend together, when you're trying to keep that flame burning..

Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory..

I try to always go for something... very interior, following thoughts and memories, something that I think is difficult to do on the screen, which is….

I want my words to survive translation..

Typically in my novels the narrator tells a story by remembering, and the memories are colored by this and colored by that. So the whole universe of ….

I loved cowboy films and TV series, and I learned bits of English from them. My favorite was 'Laramie', with Robert Fuller and John Smith. I used to ….

I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities for self-decepti….

Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood..

All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma..