It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good.

People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.

Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.

Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.

Reality TV was to me the worst form of entertainment--the modern equivalent of paying sixpence to watch lunatics howling at the wall down at the local madhouse.

The government was to raise the duty on cheese to 83 percent, an unpopular move that would doubtless have the more militant citizens picketing cheese shops.

Death and the end of one's life are two very different things indeed.