I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.

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.

There are lots of things I could have done for the money, but I've made a great living doing the things I want to do.

Any closer would unravel her mystery, the very thing which made her so truly beautiful...It was her mystery that he adored. He was in love with everything that he did not know about her... No real sexual encounter could ever match the secret one that he could nurture in his imagination... No living flesh could ever be the erotic equal of flesh kept private, untouchable and unknowable

Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I'd never used it. I'm 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s.

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

I'm easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.