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.

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.

People of this teenager's age are on the brink of adulthood and have to be allowed a greater degree of responsibility. A consequence of this is a decrease in parental responsibility. Therefore to have criminal responsibility for what you don't know about seems rather extreme.

The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.

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

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

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