Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one. I'm delighted to win them all, the whole lot.

Better Counsel comes overnight.

After a certain age - and for some of us that can be very young - there are no new people, beasts, dreams, faces, events: it has all happened before.

There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.

The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.

The 1960s was probably the first time in history that young people were recognized as a big group of consumers and as a commercial proposition for Madison Avenue. Advertising played a major role in creating the ethos of that era - the idea that, "Here it is, and you can have it now." I know that many kids thought that the ethos of the 1960s was due to their own peculiar virtues, but, in fact, it had a lot to do with the realities of the marketplace and commerce.