I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.

I cannot understand it, after all I am only a very ordinary sort of fellow.

Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist

If you do not seek to publish what you have written, then you are not a writer and you never will be.

My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.

Dialogue is character and character is plot.

Today 23 years ago dear Grandmama died. I wonder what she would have thought of a Labour Government.