In books there's nothing of the fish covered in the coldness of the sea, or the feeling of a star touching space. Bad for business.

The most amusing thing about a pantomime horse is the necessity of having to shoot it twice.

Sanity’s a virginity of the mind

The law is where reality goes to die.

What’s life in this nation? Collect emptiness in a household of cornflakes. Transient fuel gobbles attention, the television aches, the truth walks. Scheme worms welcome your corpse, trap clicks and you’re in heaven, bored rigid

Most books are so well written they barely have any effect on the reader's senses

It’s a shame, sort of a waste, that most people are influenced by what the newspaper supplements tell them is the book they are meant to be seen reading this year. It seems like those people aren’t really interested in books. If you’re really into books, you havoc all over the place picking up disparate stuff which you devour hungrily, and the ‘selection’ process is more like a sixth sense hunger, a billion miles away from fashion.