If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.

It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling.

My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.

Small things start us in new ways of thinking

Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.

The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.

Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.