Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass; give me plain glass.

I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.

Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.

One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true

I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks; I follow the path that seems most promising at any given point, not some itinerary decided before entry.

The diary will really try and tell people who you are and what you were. The alternative is writing nothing, or creating a totally lifeless, as it is leafless, garden.

I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.