I Was One Of Five Very Clever

There's This Sense Of Being Strange, Which Is At The Heart Of Every Creative Person. Every Writer, Every Actor, Every Director Knows Who Ripley Is. We've Made Careers And Lives Out Of Pretending, Making Things Up, Inhabiting Other People's Stories And Lives. That's What I Do Every Day. . . . The Story Is So Audacious And Subversive: A Central Character Who Behaves Badly And Isn't Apparently Caught. That Intrigued Me No End.

Betrayals During War Are Childlike Compared With Our Betrayals During Peace.

I Always Listen To Music, My Passion And Vice Is Music, I Will Be Denied Access To Heaven Because Of The Number Of Cds I Own, And I Have Gluttony For All Types And Colours Of Music.

The Only Lesson To Extract From Any Civil War Is That It's Pointless And Futile And Ugly, And That There Is Nothing Glamorous Or Heroic About It. There Are Heroes, But The Causes Are Never Heroic.

I Don't Hold With The Notion That Only Bad Books Make Good Movies.