A sceptic finds Dallas absurd. A cynic thinks the public doesn't

The rattle of plastic keys reminds me of a squadron of butterflies failing to fight their way out of a paper bag.

Ban poetry. And make sure that anyone caught reading it is expelled from school. Then it will acquire the glamour.

The British secret service was staffed at one point almost entirely by alcoholic homosexuals working for the KGB

All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.

The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight.

I work on the assumption, or let it be the fear, that the reader will stop reading if I stop being interesting.