Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

Women are programmed to love completely, and men are programmed to spread it around. We are fools to think it's any different.

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.

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

Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

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