No. We have a lot of customers, and we have a lot of research into our installed base. We also watch industry trends pretty carefully. But in the end, for something this complicated, it's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.

Seeing that the past dictatorships were only capable of creating misery and crippling hope, how absurd to pretend to cure the evils of one extreme dictatorship by means of its opposite! No one in Central America has the right to fear freedom, no one is entitled to preach absolute truths. The evils of one dogma are the evils of any dogma. They are all the enemies of human creativity.

These mandarin-precious-princess-and-the-pea notions about a writer’s “special place” just didn’t match my life.

Right now, we need writers who know the difference between production of a market commodity and the practice of an art. Developing written material to suit sales strategies in order to maximise corporate profit and advertising revenue is not the same thing as responsible book publishing or authorship.

If not, I’ll go to the cinema or answer emails.

This week it’s I Fall In Love Too Easily by Chet Baker.

The End Of The Affair by Graham Greene.

People need justice.

Every morning, Monday to Friday, I get up at 7am and make my wife breakfast in bed.

I wrote a play called Knuckle in 1974, which opened to hostile reviews during the three-day week.