Just because we're sisters under the skin doesn't mean we've got much in common.

He is, I think, already pondering a magisterial project: that of buggering the English language, the ultimate revenge of the colonialised.

It may be the first in what I trust will be a rapidly growing and influential genre--the novel designed on purpose to be excludedfrom the Booker short-list.

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

The clown may be the source of mirth, but - who shall make the clown laugh?

They will be like shadows, they will be like wraiths, gray members of a congregation of nightmare; hark! his long wavering howl . . . an aria of fear made audible. The wolfsong is the sound of the rending you will suffer, in itself a murdering.

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.