Lives don't divide up into chapters. People don't just talk, while nothing's going on in their head, and then respond. You know, none of these things….

I'm English enough to feel something of a gut-reaction to modernism, to continental philosophising and anything that smacks of a refusal to pay atten….

I can't remember who it was who advocated that you should march with the left and dine with the right but I've often concurred, taking the view that ….

Some people have human muses - mine is a city. I feel a startling ambivalence towards London, but for better or worse my work has come utterly to dep….