You don't put your life into your books, you find it there.

But then books, as I'm sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action. Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already. You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated. A book, as it were, closes the book.

I'm not "happy" but I'm not unhappy about it.

...she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.

I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.

I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.

Of course my standards are out of date! That's why they're called standards.