Go on - but don't think you can kill my confidence. I've had experts doing it for years.

I must say it's pretty dreary living in the American Age - unless you're an American of course. Perhaps all our children will be Americans.

George Bernard Shaw writes like a Pakistani who has learned English when he was twelve years old in order to become an accountant.

I must be the luckiest man in the world. Not only am I bisexual, I am also Welsh.

The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say -- or their beliefs -- or sex.

They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Asking a writer what he thinks about criticism is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.