Orwell Has Always Been A Huge Influence

It Is Perfectly Legitimate To Write Novels Which Are Essentially Prose Poems, But In The End, I Think, A Novel Is Like A Car, And If You Buy A Car And Grow Flowers In It, You're Forgetting That The Car Is Designed To Take You Somewhere Else.

Politics Is Never A Victory, It's Just The Remorseless Grinding Forward Of Events.

I Think That Whenever A Nation Feels Itself To Be At Is Zenith, It Starts To Feel A Creeping Sense Of Anxiety.

Suicide Leaves Everyone Feeling Guilty.

For Me, As I Suspect For Most People, There Comes A Point Where You Have Enough. If You've Got £20 Million, Why Keep Going Until You've Got £100 Million Or £1,000 Million? Does Anyone Need Another Vast Yacht Or Private Jet Or A House Full Of Gold?