Books are like my one and only joy.

It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself, and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either.

It's volatile, the marriage. Which one isn't? Nothing better than a good, full-on row. Get it all out. Say rude and nasty things. And then be sorry. Genuinely sorry, afterwards.

I always knew the Sixties wasn't a revolution. It really was just a bunch of university students with wealthy parents having fun.

Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.

Heaven is on this earth. There are no angels on the clouds with twanging harps... That's just another man's fantasy.

If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of character.