When I started, there were no big interviews, no television, no profiles and all that. The publishers were quite shockingly uncommercial, but they did look after their writers.

...We try to have things both ways. We’ve always refused to live by the book and the rule; but then why start worrying because the world doesn’t treat us by rule?

I find myself increasingly shocked at the unthinking and automatic rubbishing of men which is now so part of our culture that it is hardly even noticed.

Charity has always been a expression of the guilty consciences of a ruling class.

I'm sure that everybody feels a kind of permanent anguish about what's going on in the world.

if you understand something, you don't forgive it, you are the thing itself: forgiveness is for what you don't understand.

What is a hero without love for mankind.