The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again.

The most dangerous thought you can have as a creative person is to think that you know what you're doing.

"Every novel is a mirror held up to society's face - sometimes it reflects beauty, more often it shows the cracks we try to ignore."