There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky.

I've never been put down by a man, unless I deserved it, and have never felt inferior.

Moonlight lined the windowsills like a fall of snow.

The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour

The vital accessories to my work are my reference books, such as the complete Shakespeare and a prayer book, and a large refuse bin.

It is the generation of the unemphatic. Steal, kill, lie, fornicate, but beware of indulging with conviction.

Emotions weren't like washing. There was no call to peg them out for all the world to view.