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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.