Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!

When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.

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.

This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are only too happy to enjoy what has been won for them.

All my friends' mothers were appalling women.

there are two kinds of humanity, those who dream and those who don't, and both tend to despise, or to tolerate, the other.

I've always disliked words like inspiration. Writing is probably like a scientist thinking about some scientific problem, or an engineer about an engineering problem.