A strong man who has known power all his life may lose respect for that power. But a weak man knows the value of strength.

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.

It is often spur-of-the-moment decisions, sometimes made by others, that can change our whole lives.

With torture ,as with making love, foreplay is the all important factor

A work of art is worth what someone will pay for it.

And I did wonder - because it's now three years ago since I left prison - whether there would come a time when I would forget it, or it would be in the past as anything else might be - no, it's there every day of my life.

Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.