I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity.

Good writing is always new.

I like feeling my way into different minds and experiences. It comes naturally and always has.

I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self the more you do.

Once you get older, people stop listening to what you say. It's very agreeable once you get used to it.

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

On buses and trains, I always think about the inexhaustible variety of human genes. We see types, and occasionally twins, but never doubles. All faces are unique, and this is exhilarating, despite the increasingly plastic similarity of TV stars and actors.