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.

When you commit a serious doping offence you are not eligible for lottery funding.

These days - with the decline of the traditional churches - I'm concerned about where we obtain some form of moral direction.

We've invested millions of dollars in tourism. Now they're trying to industrialize and pollute the ocean. It doesn't make any sense to me at all.

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

I always thought it better to allow myself to doubt before I decided, than to expose myself to the misery, after I had decided, of doubting whether I had decided rightly and justly.