They are always saying God loves us. If thats love Id rather have a bit of kindness.

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.

So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.

...every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.

The world doesn't make any heroes anymore.

I get fed up with all this nonsense of ringing people up and lighting cigarettes and answering the doorbell that passes for action in so many modern plays.

So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.