It's basically a home-rule issue. I think the governing authority that appoints people as assessors certainly has reasons for doing it. ... And it certainly ought to be the board of assessors' right to say who is best qualified to serve as an appraiser.

It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It's probably this shocking ambivalence that makes us unique.

My work is known by too few people for me to be remembered as a writer - that is, beyond those dedicated souls (bless them) who have followed the oeuvre through its various stages. To be realistic, when they and the last of my friends have died, I doubt I shall be remembered at all.

I don't see myself as experimenting in any conscious way, it's perhaps that certain books require different densities of language.

Until you see the cross as that which is done _by_ you, you will never appreciate that it is done _for_ you.

It's always better if you're next door. Ideas come up at the oddest times. They don't always come up in a conference call.

I have a backlog of novels which I would love to be working on and would be working on if I were not obliged to hold down a full time job.