I did feel as though a number of critics had appointed themselves, when they sat down with a new book of mine, to rectify what they felt to be was my inflated reputation and so that the book in hand was not really given a chance but made a kind of weapon in the general attempt to bring me down to size.

We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.

Movies took you right up to the edge but kept you safe.

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.

Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position.

Fraud makes the world go round.

There is no such thing as static happiness. Happiness is a mixed thing, a thing compounded of sacrifices, and losses, and betrayals.