English is a curiously expressive language. Womb, room, tomb. It sums up living in three words. - Anthony Burgess

If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and violence. These remain the basic themes, they're the basic themes of Shakespeare whether you like it or not.

"Easier, lad, with those soft small bodies....Nothing to it. They're just soft squashy things."

Around them the gawping locals sat, amazed with an amazement that never grew less…