The World Is A Sea In Which

And When I Was Young, Did I Ever Tell You, I Always Wanted To Get Inside A Book And Never Come Out Again? I Loved Reading So Much I Wanted To Be A Part Of It, And There Were Some Books I Could Have Stayed In For Ever.

London Has Always Provided The Landscape For My Imagination. It Becomes A Character - A Living Being - Within Each Of My Books.

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.

Bigotry Does Not Consort Easily With Free Trade.

I Don't Find Myself Interesting As A Person And The Details I Find Boring, Quite Frankly. You Could Sum It Up In A Few Words Or Sentences Really: Came From Nothing. Self-educated. Luck. Energy. Curiosity. Ambition. That's It. Nothing At All Can Illuminate The Work As Far As I Can Tell.