What obsesses a writer starting out on a lifetime's work is the panic-stricken search for a voice of his own.

The point at which beliefs meet may be more significant, more useful to contemplate, than their sources.

It is desperately important to remember when enough is enough, when you've finished the scene.

The law seems like a sort of maze through which a client must be led to safety, a collection of reefs, rocks, and underwater hazards through which he or she must be piloted.

Loyalty to the school to which your parents pay to send you seemed to me like feeling loyalty to Selfridges.

To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.

The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.