People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.

The internet was supposed to liberate knowledge, but in fact it buried it, first under a vast sewer of ignorance, laziness, bigotry, superstition and filth and then beneath the cloak of political surveillance. Now...cyberspace exists exclusively to promote commerce, gossip and pornography. And of course to hunt down sedition. Only paper is safe. Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar, you have to hold it, you have to read it.

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.

I resent the creation of a world in which beauty is a reminder of what we're losing rather than a celebration of what we have.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

I loved writing 'Two Brothers' more than anything else I have written. It's the first book I've written that I've always known I wanted to write. Having said that, it also kept me awake at nights.

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.