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.

An office is a machine for dying.

Biting enemies seems to be acceptable in a surprisingly narrow range of circumstances, or so a ninja shouted at me once

From space this Earth is incandescent with abominations - the gods write their signature in our entrails

In America, fundamentalist Christians believe the world was created 6,000 years ago - in England people drink in bars that are older than that.

Sanity’s a virginity of the mind

One golfer a year is hit by lightning. This may be the only evidence we have of God's existence.