Prejudices are useless. Call Los Angeles any dirty name you like - Six Suburbs in Search of a City, Paradise with a Lobotomy, anything - but the fact remains that you are already living in it before you get there

One of the virtues of the NHS... it doesn't worry you about money at the moment when you're least capable of doing anything about it.

Writing is a performance art for me. They're very closely aligned, writing and performing. But I'm a writer, not a performer.

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.

The Canadian version of Julius Caesar's memoirs? I came, I saw, I coped.

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