Dying is a matter of slapstick and pratfalls. The ageing process is not gradual or gentle. It rushes up, pushes you over and runs off laughing. No on….

I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth foregoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward..

What obsesses a writer starting out on a lifetime's work is the panic-stricken search for a voice of his own..

Loyalty to the school to which your parents pay to send you seemed to me like feeling loyalty to Selfridges..