Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real.

There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race.

The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.

People have obsessions and fears and passions which they don't admit to. I think every character is interesting and has extremes. It's the novelist privilege to see how odd everyone is.

Actors are cave dwellers in a rich darkness which they love and hate.

Love is the last and secret name of all the virtues.

Food is a profound subject and one, incidentally, about which no writer lies.