The best years are when you know what you're doing.
Freud was just a novelist.
Under the force of the imagination, nature itself is changed.
People are much more interesting than people realise.
Rioting has always been a London tradition. It has been since the early Middle Ages. There's hardly a spate of years that goes by without violent rioting of one kind or another. They happen so frequently that they are almost part of London's texture.
There are so many characters whizzing around inside my head, it's like Looney Tunes. But as soon as I've finished writing about them, I completely forget who they are.