Originality irritates so obscurely that people may have to evolve to scratch it.

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

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.

We have truth in order not to die of art.

Originality irritates so obscurely that people may have to evolve to scratch it.

The law is where reality goes to die.

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