I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.

Death is the ultimate negative.

Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?

Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything... death is not... It's the absence of presence, nothing more... the endless time of never coming back... a gap you can't see, and when the wind blows through it, it makes not sound.

War is capitalism with the gloves off and many who go to war know it but they go to war because they don't want to be a hero.

There is no one so radical as a man-servant whose freedom of the champagne bin has been interfered with.

Personally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it.