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

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

You remember with what you are at the time you are remembering.

I would not be at all surprised to find out . . . that the dimensions of buildings affect us in ways we don't guess.

There is a whole generation of women and it was as if their lives came to a stop when they had children. Most of them got pretty neurotic - because, I think, of the contrast between what they were taught at school they were capable of being and what actually happened to them.

There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.

Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.