When insolvent, pack minimally, with a valise tough enough to be thrown onto a London pavement from a first- or second-floor window. Insist on hotel rooms no higher.
She has to lose her pre-Copernican view of a universe revolving around herself.
I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.
The truth of a myth...is not in its words but its patterns.
I can't bear living in this huge beautiful world and not try to imitate it as best I can.
Me, I want to bloody kick this moronic bloody world in the bloody teeth over and over till it bloody understands that not hurting people is ten bloody thousand times more bloody important than being right.