One either imposes one's ideas or one is imposed on.

I work just as much as I always worked. And I can't explain the fact that there have been a series of books coming rather regularly out of me. I work most days and if you work most days and you get at least a page done a day, then at the end of the year you have 365. So the pages accumulate and then I publish the books.

A writer has to be driven crazy to help him to see. A writer needs his poisons.

Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game.

When he [Joe Lewis] was asked upon his retirement about his long career, Joe sweetly summed it up in just ten words. 'I did the best I could with what I had'.

I wouldn't mind writing a long book which is going to occupy me for the rest of my life.

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.