When you look into a mirror it is not yourself you see, but a kind of apish error posed in fearful symmetry kool uoy nehW rorrim a otni ton si ti ˛ees uoy flesruoy dnik a tub rorre hsipa fo lufraef ni desop yrtemmys

Not judginess, but openness and curiosity are our proper business. I'm still trying to educate myself. I don't think you need to keep rehearsing your instincts. Far better to seek out models of what you can't do.

Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews.

What is the past, after all, but a vast sheet of darkness in which a few moments, pricked apparently at random, shine?

Sex is like money; only too much is enough.

In a democracy in the 20th and 21st century, if you can't base your fiction upon ordinary people and the issues that engage them, then you are reduced to writing about spectacular unreal people. You know, James Bond or something, and you cook up adventures.

Money is like water in a leaky bucket: no sooner there, it begins to drip.