No one likes it, apart from blind people, and I'm sure even they can sense it's profound ugliness as it passes by.

I have no problem selling books to media franchises and we do it all the time. The author must understand that he/she is a writer for hire and has no control over copyright or over editorial changes made to the text.

You see, that's the whole point of being in government. If you don't like something you simply make up a law that makes it illegal.

Bob Geldof feels the big picture all the time, even in the smallest argument when someone's saying, 'Well, no, you've got to have three staples in the program, not just two,' Bob feels people dying somewhere.

It's always a mistake for writers to key their submissions to world events, because they move so quickly and unpredictably, as has certainly proven the case in Afghanistan.

Cause if you shoot a bullet someone dies. If you drop a bomb many die. You hit a woman, love dies. But if you say the F-word... nothing actually happens.

We are taking a business-as-usual position at my agency, though business before 9/11 wasn't that hot either!