Carnal embrace is sexual congress, which is the insertion of the male genital organ into the female genital organ for purposes of procreation and pleasure. Fermat’s last theorem, by contrast, asserts that when x, y and z are whole numbers each raised to power of n, the sum of the first two can never equal the third when n is greater than 2.

I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown.

You can persuade a man to believe almost anything provided he is clever enough, but it is much more difficult to persuade someone less clever.

War is capitalism with the gloves off.

Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, "Oh, for God's sake, shut up."

Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life.

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.