I hated the 1960's feminists," she says. "They were dogmatists, you see. In comes ideology, and out goes common sense. This is my experience of life.

I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.

One certainty we all accept is the condition of being uncertain and insecure.

People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone.

September 11 was terrible, but if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.

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

Sometimes I dislike women, I dislike us all, because of our capacity for not-thinking when it suits us; we choose not to think when we are reaching our for happiness.