I've always felt that English women had to be approached in a sisterly manner, rather than an erotic manner.

I was very lighthearted. This often the way when the abandonment of personal responsibility is enforced: neither wronged innocence or just guilt can seriously impair the sensation of freedom one has.

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.

Each man kills the thing he loves.

laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my sword-pen.

I chart a little first-list of names, rough synopsis of chapters, and so on. But one daren't overplan; so many things are generated by the sheer act of writing.