Charity has always been a expression of the guilty consciences of a ruling class.

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

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

Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew.

Capable people do not understand incapacity; clever people do not understand stupidity.

...We try to have things both ways. We’ve always refused to live by the book and the rule; but then why start worrying because the world doesn’t treat us by rule?

It has become a kind of religion that you can't criticise because then you become a traitor to the great cause, which I am not. It is time we began to ask who are these women who continually rubbish men. The most stupid, ill-educated and nasty woman can rubbish the nicest, kindest and most intelligent man and no one protests ... Men seem to be so cowed that they can't fight back, and it is time they did.