The True Currency Of Life Is Time,

Egyptologists, Skilled In Piecing Together The Papyri Of Lost Civilisations, Suddenly Discovered That The Same Talent Could Be Applied To Working Out The Pattern Of German Radio Traffic.

Politics Is Never A Victory, It's Just The Remorseless Grinding Forward Of Events.

A Police State Is A Country Run By Criminals

My Literary Career Was A Fluke. Utterly Unexpected.

It Is Perfectly Legitimate To Write Novels Which Are Essentially Prose Poems, But In The End, I Think, A Novel Is Like A Car, And If You Buy A Car And Grow Flowers In It, You're Forgetting That The Car Is Designed To Take You Somewhere Else.