If every inhabitant of a liberal democracy believes in liberal democracy, then it doesn't matter what creed or colour they are.

These are the Seven Deadly Sins: Avarice, Envy, Pride, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Sloth. These are the seven deadly sins: venality, paranoia, insecurity, excess, carnality, contempt, boredom.

So I am lonely, but not alone, like everybody else.

...So in his own way Guy Clinch confronted the central question of his time, a question you saw being asked and answered everywhere you looked, in every headline and haircut: if, at any moment, nothing might matter, then who said that nothing didn't matter already?

He was in a terrible state- that of consciousness.

The literary interview won't tell you what a writer is like. Far more compellingly to some, it will tell you what a writer is like to interview.

Don't dumb down; always write for your top five percent of readers.