Shuttered like a fan no-one suspects your shoulder blades of wings.

Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.

Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.

Walls protect and walls limit. It is in the nature of walls that they should fall. That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.

Don’t you, when strangers and friends come to call, straighten the cushions, kick the books under the bed and put away the letter you were writing? How many of us want any of us to see us as we really are? Isn’t the mirror hostile enough?

Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know.

Why did I walk so purposefully in a straight line? Where would it take me? He went round and round and we got there all the same.