Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.

Whatever respect photography may once have deserved is now superfluous in view of its own superfluity.

If the government announced that it was going to allocate a vast tranche of education funding purely to the pupils at the best public schools, there would be a national outcry - and yet this is precisely what the Olympics represents in terms of sports funding.

I loathe computers more and more, so I have one I can shut down and shelve like a book.

Live life and write about life. Of the making of many books there is indeed no end, but there are more than enough books about books.

The cynics are correct the sense of freewill is only that feeling which we have when we take the necessitated option that most appeals to us.

Television is the same as the telephone, and the same as the World Wide Web for that matter. People who become obsessed by the peculiarities of these communications media have simply failed to adjust to the shock of the old. People who bleat on about the 'artistic' potential of television qua television are equally deluded.