In my experience of fights and fighting, it is invariably the aggressor who keeps getting everything wrong. - Martin Amis

I think novelists are in the education business, really, but they're not teaching you times tables, they are teaching you responsiveness and morality and to make nuanced judgments. And really to just make the planet look a bit richer when you go out into the street.

PC is low, low church — it is the lowest common denomination.

Making lots of money — it's not that hard, you know. It's overestimated. Making lots of money is a breeze. You watch. ch. 1, p. 23 in Penguin paperback