Art you can flush down the loo means nothing to me, even were the loo to be selected by Marcel Duchamp

'Reality' is a notion that journalists take for granted.

Always trust strangers, it's the people you know that let you down.

As a writer I care about America, and care about its carelessness.

Interviewing is not a democratic art.

We do not read to pass the time, but to inhabit time.

I wasn't like other boys. At any rate, I wasn't like my three elder brothers: they excelled at football and they were like other boys, going up to bed each night hugging annuals filled with stories about the glories of Pele and Danny McGrain.