Life Is Tragic But It's Equally Comic.

It's Great People Still Care About Books, And It's Great You Can Still Fashion A Life From Literature.

Where I Went, No One Could Follow. Yet Someone Managed To Hold My Hand.

There Are Times, They Occur With Increasing Frequency Nowadays, When I Seem To Know Nothing, When Everything I Know Seems To Have Fallen Out Of My Mind Like A Shower Of Rain, And I Am Gripped For A Moment In Paralysed Dismay, Waiting For It All To Come Back But With No Certainty That It Will.

The Booker Prize Is A Big, Popular Prize For Big, Popular Books, And That's The Way It Should Be.

The Effect Of Prizes On One's Career - If That Is What To Call It - Is Considerable, Since They Give One More Clout With Publishers And More Notoriety Among Journalists. The Effect On One's Writing, However, Is Nil - Otherwise, One Would Be In Deep Trouble.