The Benson and Hedges Cup was won by McEnroe ... he was as charming as always, which means that he was as charming as a dead mouse in a loaf of bread.

Among artists without talent Marxism will always be popular, since it enables them to blame society for the fact that nobody wants to hear what they have to say.

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

All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light.

I love reading about the sea. I love reading about it a lot more than actually being on the sea, when you think about it.

I've got life for a subject because as life starts to drain away, you start seeing very clearly what life is, for the first time.

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