The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

Banks must properly handle the relationship between development and risk, neither sticking to old ways nor advancing recklessly.

Childhood is the first and last frontier of literature.

"History is not just about the past; it's about the present and the future too."

I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing at that, only then does he turn to the novel.