If you wake up in the morning with a great sense of the things that have to be done in the day in order to get through to the next day, you lose the sense of the day as any kind of end in itself.

How has anyone ever understood anyone, except through love, which is wordless?

Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society.

My experience of men in cars has always been that if you don't want them to do something, they will. It is when they are behind a wheel that they most fear the control of women and children.

The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.

People hear what they want and expect to hear, not what is said.

Youth gives a sense of new days dawning bright, going on for ever, and a kind of tamped-down excitement which keeps breaking through even the worst days of poverty, depression and loneliness. But then youth is something which only exists in retrospect; you are barely conscious of it while you have it.