There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.
“Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.”
“There are really only two plays: Romeo and Juliet, and put the darn ball in the basket.”