We don't know much about the human conscience, except that it is soluble in alcohol.

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt.

I don't believe in children's books. I think after you've read Kidnapped, Treasure Island, and Huckleberry Finn, you're ready for anything.

The officers of the branch of the Force (the Obscene Publications Squad) have a discouraging club tie, on which a book is depicted being cut in half by a larger pair of scissors.

We don't know much about the human conscience, except that it is soluble in alcohol.

On the three pigs he and his wife own: "We acquired the pigs last year. My wife was born on a pig farm and has always been very fond of pigs. Of course, they are for eating, which is why they are named Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. You wouldn’t want to eat Rufus, Marcus and Esmeralda.

What obsesses a writer starting out on a lifetime's work is the panic-stricken search for a voice of his own.