The best way of getting into something is to think of it as mischief.

The great thing about being ignored is that you can speak the truth with impunity.

Stab me if you can enjoy it - but not if it feels like a duty. Stab me vertically if I'm lying down and horizontally if I'm running

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.

An office is a machine for dying.

How many times does a man have to shave before his chin gets the message?

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.