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

f they'd been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn't have known they were born if they'd not towed the line!

Why is it always the "intelligent" people who are socialists?

I don't talk very well. With writing, you've time to get it right. Also I've found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn't write no one would want me to talk anyway.

Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.

It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.

... Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up. Books, bread and butter, mashed potato - one finishes what's on one's plate. That's always been my philosophy.