Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.

Humphrey Searle writes music that sounds like the theme from 'Star Wars' played backwards through a washing machine.

If we want a book to do more than what it does, that's a condemnation. If we want it to do more of what it does, that's an endorsement.

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.

First-rate science fiction was, and remains, more interesting than second-rate art.

Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail.

Almost 70 years have gone by, and I've still got that feeling when I write... Writing, for me, is still it. It has always been the basis of everything I do. I'm a writer who performs, not a performer who writes. I love the act of writing. It's still a thrill for me.