"I mean that certain fictions, chiefly Conan Doyle, Stevenson, but many others also, laid out a template that was more powerful than any local documentary account - the presences that they created, or ..."
- Iain Sinclair
"Getting comprehensively lost in a car with a full tank of petrol at someone else's expense, you can't beat it."
"The line of traffic advancing towards the rising sun looked like a procession of the returning dead. Every one of them, solitaries in clean shirts, smoking, checking mirrors to see if their reflection..."