The world is always in movement.

I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.

The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.

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.

My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

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

What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.