In off the moors, down through the mist beams, god-cursed Grendel came greedily loping.

I've nothing against the Queen personally: I had lunch at the Palace once upon a time.

Loyalism, or Unionism, or Protestantism, or whatever you want to call it, in Northern Ireland - it operates not as a class system, but a caste system.

I don't miss teaching. I'm learning to take my time for myself.

Part of my gradual education of myself has been to think that there is a deep relationship between the nature of the creature and the worth of the art.

Write whatever you like!

I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.