I Think That All Writers

There Is A Terrible Alienation In The Ordinary Man Between What He Is Being Told And What He Secretly Believes.

There Is No Such Thing As A Secure Writer: Every Novel Is An Impossible Mountain.

When You're My Age, You Have The Feeling Sometimes That You're Seeing The Show Come Round Again.

Fools, Most Linguists. Damn All To Say In One Language, So They Learn Another And Say Damn All In That.

It Was Man Who Ended The Cold War In Case You Didn't Notice. It Wasn't Weaponry, Or Technology, Or Armies Or Campaigns. It Was Just Man. Not Even Western Man Either, As It Happened, But Our Sworn Enemy In The East, Who Went Into The Streets, Faced The Bullets And The Batons And Said: We've Had Enough. It Was Their Emperor, Not Ours, Who Had The Nerve To Mount The Rostrum And Declare He Had No Clothes. And The Ideologies Trailed After These Impossible Events Like Condemned Prisoners, As Ideologies Do When They've Had Their Day.