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.

In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.

The human community is evolving... . We can survive anything you care to mention. We are supremely equipped to survive, to adapt and even in the long run to start thinking.

We've got to believe in our beautiful impossible blueprints.

I never thought of London in terms of possible heroes - of course, there are thousands. It's a very talented city.

For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature.

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.