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.

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.

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.

You look out on the driving range and it looks like snow, but it isn't, it's covered in golf balls.

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

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

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.