I Make No Apology For

Things Are Only Boring If You Are Boring.

I Enjoy Doing Very High Mileages, Partly Out Of Masochism And Also Because I Like To Feel The Shape Of The Landscape.

The Novelist, Quite Rightly, Fears The Psychoanalyst As Both An Enemy And A Usurper.

I Am A Regular If Not Exactly Enthusiastic Patron Of My Local Bookshop. I Try To Buy At Least Some Books There Because I Cling To The Belief That It's Important To Maintain Those Businesses Which Put A Human Face On The Exchange Of Money For Goods And Services.

If The Seventies Were Bulbous, And The Eighties Sharp, The Nineties Were Nothing But Bogus.