Drink deeply from good books.
I enjoy thinking myself into other times and places. I don't like some of the conventions of the 'historical novel', but I think there's a way of doing it that has a lot of merit.
I can see a version of my life where it all becomes meaningless. On a good day, writing seems noble. Other times, it's narcissistic and pointless.
As I got older I became a kind of sub cultural junkie, foraging around in music, street fashion and eventually art, politics and the freakier reaches of the Internet, hunting the next discovery, the next seam of underground gold.
I'm fascinated by the emergence of a global class. They're highly mobile; they reject the idea of place.
In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal.
I suffer from vertigo. It's paralyzing in extreme situations. The most scared I've been as an adult was trying to conquer that fear by going climbing in Wales.
An ounce of courage will go farther with women than a pound of timidity.
Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.
I really, really fear head injuries. But when people hit their heads in movies or fall down - I can't stop laughing.
I borrowed 100 pounds and made the pact with God: Make me a millionaire - and you can have half of my money.