I don't think they'll ever make a retro Bond.

We all possess, like it or not, the people we know, and are possessed by them in turn.

Is that a good definition of marking the ageing watershed? That moment when you realize - quite rationally, quite unemotionally - that the world in the not-so-distant future will not contain you: that the trees you planted will continue growing but you will not be there to see them.

In some ways, you could argue, television is doing far more interesting work than the movies. It's more fulfilling.

I let people off the hook too easily.

We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being.

My novels are often about people who are in love or attracted to each other.