Few pleasures are greater than knowing you can close your door, ignore the world and create your own.

I always consider every place worth exploring once- just in case there's a thirty foot flaming sign divulging the secret of life, that no one has told me about.

It's what the reader thinks that counts.

I went to a British Council event a while back and there were lots of German professors of literature. About half of them were convinced I had a German sense of humour and the other half were sure it was British. They are probably still arguing about it now.

The way British publishing works is that you go from not being published no matter how good you are, to being published no matter how bad you are.

Stay cool, and wait for opportunity.

No amount of intelligence can save you from stupidity.