A few of us were having a whisky after golf, and it came to me: ‘If you’d like an image of the future, think of a boot stamping eternally on a human face.’ I might have known Bill O’Brien would steal it. The man never had an original idea in his life. See here, if he says it to you later on, will you tell him from me he’s a mediocrity and a thief of others’ ideas?”
