I Just Wanted To Be An Ordinary,

Murderers Will Try To Recall The Sequence Of Events, They Will Remember Exactly What They Did Just Before And Just After. But They Can Never Remember The Actual Moment Of Killing. This Is Why They Will Always Leave A Clue.

In 'the Plato Papers' I Wanted To Get Another Perspective On The Present Moment By Extrapolating Into The Distant Future. So In That Sense, There's A Definite Similarity Of Purpose Between A Book Set In The Future And A Book Set In The Past.

I Don't In Any Sense Think Of Myself As A Celebrity, Which Of Course I'm Not.

Thomas More's Birth Was Noted By His Father Upon A Blank Page At The Back Of A Copy Of Geoffrey Of Monmouth's 'historia Regum Britanniae'; For A Lawyer John More Was Remarkably Inexact In His References To That Natal Year, And The Date Has Been Moved From 1477 To 1478 And Back Again.

No Poet Is Ever Completely Lost. He Has The Secret Of His Childhood Safe With Him, Like Some Secret Cave In Which He Can Kneel. And, When We Read His Poetry, We Can Join Him There.