There's One Thing Worse Than Change And

A Desk Is A Dangerous Place From Which To View The World.

During The Cold War, We Lived In Coded Times When It Wasn't Easy And There Were Shades Of Grey And Ambiguity.

Remember Graham Green's Dictum That Childhood Is The Bank Balance Of The Writer? I Think That All Writers Feel Alienated. Most Of Us Go Back To An Alienated Childhood In Some Way Or Another. I Know That I Do.

I Don't Think That There Are Very Many Good Writers Who Don't Live Without A Sense Of Tension. If They Haven't Got One Immediately Available To Them, Then They Usually Manage To Manufacture It In Their Private Lives.

A Good Man Knows When To Sacrifice Himself, A Bad Man Survives But Loses His Soul.