I love doubt in a woman. It's nearly as sexy as determination.

Now there is apparently a causal link between heroin addiction and vegetarianism.

The books that are really valuable are the books that evoke a sense of place.

In some ways, you can say that at any time in any writer's career: 'He might have run out of ideas.'

In America I think we need to move towards a social democracy, European-style basically, and I think that in Britain we do as well.

We have to accept that capitalism is coming to an end. We can't provide paid employment for people, all the industries with technology are counter-intuitive to profit, and we have to have a transition to the conceptualist society. The only way to do it fairly is as a social democracy, a radical social democracy, which isn't compromised by neo-liberalism and isn't compromised by the rich, and isn't compromised by hegemonic, authoritarian interests: to have that balance between the government, the private sector, and then the individual citizens again.

Ah suppose man, ah'm too much ay a perfectionist, ken? It's likesay, if things go a bit dodgy, ah jist cannae be bothered, y'know.