I hate to sound clichéd, but I do see life as a journey. How else can you see it?

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.

As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital.

The Freudians describe the conscious as a small lit area, all white, and the unconscious as a great dark marsh full of monsters. In their view, the monsters reach up, grab you by the ankles, and try to drag you down.

There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.