We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
“The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.”
“I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties.”