Does a name stick because it suits a man or does the man, unconsciously, evolve into his name?

But only a fool sails into combat with nature

It is perfectly legitimate to write novels which are essentially prose poems, but in the end, I think, a novel is like a car, and if you buy a car and grow flowers in it, you're forgetting that the car is designed to take you somewhere else.

A police state is a country run by criminals

Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.

The financial world is at the cutting edge of high technology.

I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.