There are defining moments in one's life when you learn about yourself, and you deposit that knowledge in the experience account, so you can draw on it at some later date.

Chatterers are a menace.

The discipline required for athletics carried through to writing. You call it obsession. I call it discipline. By the way, I see nothing wrong with that.

But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.

With torture ,as with making love, foreplay is the all important factor

While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.

When I was three, I wanted to be four. When I was four, I wanted to be prime minister.