Luck's Just Another Word For

I Think That Most Of My Books Are Part Of Some Process Of Self-education, Often About The Places I Go To. Most Of All, They Are About The Peculiar Tension Between Institutional Loyalty And Loyalty To Oneself; The Mystery Of Patriotism, For A Brit Of My Age And Generation, Where It Runs, How It Should Be Defined, What It's Worth And What A Corrupting Force It Can Be When Misapplied. All That Stuff Is Just In Me And It Comes Out In The Characters. I Don't Mean To Preach, But I Know I Do, And I'm A Very Flawed Person. It's Quite Ridiculous.

Completing A Book, It's A Little Like Having A Baby.

Luck's Just Another Word For Destiny... Either You Make Your Own Or You're Screwed.

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

By Repetition, Each Lie Becomes An Irreversible Fact Upon Which Other Lies Are Constructed.