People don't really know themselves until they're 30. Like most people nowadays, I went to university, got a degree and wandered for a bit. I trained to be a chartered accountant, which I didn't much enjoy, and it was only slowly that the idea of becoming a creative writer gelled.

Politicians all over the world cater to domestic vote banks. They will spend only on what their constituents want. So unless there is a grass root green movement in a nation the politicians will not be willing to spend money on curbing emissions. More awareness is needed amongst the people to effect the real change in how governments spend.

When I vacate this sack of old bones I won't care what you do with it. Bury or burn it but don't make much fuss.

All my characters have got a big slice of me in them. A big piece of me, because it's my dialogue and this is the way I think and talk.

It's a strange paradox that a man gifted with too many talents can fritter them all away without developing a single one to its full.

Let it simply be said that we know more about the details of the hours immediately before and the actual death of Jesus, in and near Jerusalem, than we know about the death of any other one man in all the ancient world.

Litigation only makes lawyers fat.