You are safe with me." "I am not at all safe, with you. But I have no desire to be elsewhere.

You are safe with me." "I am not at all safe, with you. But I have no desire to be elsewhere.

It's a terrible poison, writing.

I watch a lot of sport on television. I only watch certain sports, and I only watch them live - I don't think I've ever been able to watch a replay of a match or game of which the result was already decided. I feel bound to cheat and look up what can be looked up.

Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.

There are things that happen and leave no discernible trace, are not spoken or written of, though it would be very wrong to say that subsequent events go on indifferently, all the same, as though such things had never been.

The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.