All history, of course, is the history of wars.

You learn a lot, writing fiction.

The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.

It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless nerd.

People die, but money never does.

There's a fearful term that's in fashion at the moment - closure. People apparently believe it is desirable and attainable.

The past is our ultimate privacy; we pile it up, year by year, decade by decade, it stows itself away, with its perverse random recall system.