The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.

For the past seventeen years I have been experimenting with lager. I am a lager user and one drug leads to another. If you do lager, as night follows day, you'll end up doing Kentucky Fried Chicken.

And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.

Kingsley watched her disappear from the room, wondering if his heart would break. Logic informed him that of course it would not. The heart was no more than a muscle, a pump which distributed blood about the body.

Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.

My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!

I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it.