I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.

Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.

The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.

You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.

Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.

You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.