There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in...We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.

Lies had deserted me, and I felt as lonely as though they had been my only friends.

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

For a good man fame is always a problem.

It is the storytellers task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.

I wish sometimes you had a few bad motives, you might understand a little more about human beings.

And there, in that phrase, the bitterness leaks again out of my pen. What a dull lifeless quality this bitterness is. If I could I would write with love, but if I could write with love I would be another man; I would never have lost love.