Nothing that can be, can come between me and the full prospect of my hopes.

What is lawful is not always identical to what is right.

...falling in love could be achieved in a single word—a glance.

Especially difficult when the first and best unconscious move of a dedicated liar is to persuade himself he's sincere. And once he's sincere, all deception vanishes.

Screenwriting is an opportunity to fly first class, be treated like a celebrity, sit around the pool and be betrayed.

But how to do feelings? All very well to write "She felt sad", or describe what a sad person might do, but what of sadness itself, how was that put across so it could be felt in all its lowering immediacy? Even harder was the threat, or the confusion of feeling contradictory things.

Novels help us to resist the temptation to think of the past as deficient.