In a world of big organizations, the individual feels trapped and powerless.

I think it's merely the randomness of the winning and losing process that I want to stress, because the emphasis nowadays is so much on the justice of everything, and politicians always talk about justice. Now I'm a firm believer in justice, I just think that it's impossible. So we should do everything we can to pursue it, but we should always remember that whoever is facing us, whatever has happened in their lives, there will be a strong element of the haphazard. That's what I'm trying to leave room for; otherwise, it can get quite claustrophobic.

"Writing is a way to make sense of the world and our place in it."

Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.