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

No time like the present

Making a million legally has always been difficult. Making a million illegally has always been a little easier. Keeping a million when you have made it is perhaps the most difficult of all.

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

I learnt a lot about myself, I learnt a lot about other people and the problems they have. If I was lucky enough to live to a hundred, how I will feel about two per cent of my life being that way, I don't know.

I want to be your stranger across a crowded room.

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.