[T]here is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing.

Dinner at the Huntercombes' possessed only two dramatic features - the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy.

One of the worst things about life is not how nasty the nasty people are. You know that already. It is how nasty the nice people can be.

You have to be a product of the product.

Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.

I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. Books are unconvertible assets, to be passed on only to those who possess them already.

[T]here is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing.