When you're 20 or 30, looking ahead, you see these benchmarks for relationships, career, ambition, sexuality, and they went off into infinity. When you get to 50, you look at what's ahead of you, and there's an end. It goes into a nothingness, a void.

With any story I write, I could actually write it from three or four different perspectives, which would end with a completely different moral at the end.

I really love animals. My cat is my little soul mate. He's not just a cat, he's my friend.

There's different kinds of love, and I'd never experienced that kind of totally platonic love. All the love I've experienced has always been a kind of deal, and now, as I get older, I realise that there's this other love out there.