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

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.

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

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.

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.