The Natural Impulse Of Men

But Only A Fool Sails Into Combat With Nature

Power Brings A Man Many Luxuries, But A Clean Pair Of Hands Is Seldom Among Them.

It Is Perfectly Legitimate To Write Novels Which Are Essentially Prose Poems, But In The End, I Think, A Novel Is Like A Car, And If You Buy A Car And Grow Flowers In It, You're Forgetting That The Car Is Designed To Take You Somewhere Else.

I Write As Well As I Can. I'm A Journalist At Heart, So It's The Story That Matters.

In A Way I'm Almost More Rueful About The Notion Of Having A Non-ideological Labour Party Than I Am About The Personality Of Tony Blair.