I am a creature of my pen. My pen is the best of me.

That is human nature, that people come after you, willingly enough, provided only that you no longer love or want them.

In our world of sleek flesh and collagen, botox and liposuction, what we most fear is the dissolution of the body-mind, the death of the brain.

I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.

Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.

When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.

Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.