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.

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

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

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

Let us forget the past - this is the only way to be genuinely surprised.

What happens when the hitcher and the driver are equally murderous?

Sanity’s a virginity of the mind