When a book comes out I wonder if one person will buy it. It's agony. Of course it's stupid, but it's agony.

I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now.

I have discovered with advancing years that few things are entirely black or white, but more often different shades of grey.

Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.

Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.

I find I don't learn a lot while I'm talking

Chatterers are a menace.