Life's scientific, but we don't know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.

Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!

Life's scientific, but we don't know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.

I have a confession to make. The love affair of my life has been with the Greek language. I have now reached the age when it has occurred to me that I may have read some books for the last time. I suddenly thought that there are books I cannot bear not to read again before I die. One that stands out a mile is Homer's Iliad.

The rules!" shouted Ralph, "you're breaking the rules!" "Who cares?

What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?

I also know Patrick White in Australia, both personally and as a writer, and Salman Rushdie in India.