Look, he said to his imagination, if this is how you're going to behave, I shan't bring you again.

Sometimes I feel that the world is made up of sensible people who know the plot and bloody idiots who don't.

They looked at one another in incomprehension, two minds driving opposite ways up a narrow street and waiting for the other man to reverse first.

You will have to look a long way before you find a bunch of scum-suckers more greedy, humourless and deserving of death than the suits in the music business.

Once you have your character sitting right there in your head, all you really need to do is wind them up, put them down, and simply write down what they do, say, or think.

It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God's waiting room.

If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.