This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.

I'm lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.

Artists don't create society, they reflect it

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

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

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.

Leaders should never, ever try to look cool - that's for dictators