I started out with nothing in the world but a kind of passion, a driving desire. I don't know where it came from, and I don't know why - or why I have been so stubborn about it that nothing could deflect me. But this thing between me and my writing is the strongest bond I have ever had - stronger than any bond or any engagement with any human being or with any other work I've ever done.

Love must be learned and learned again; There is no end.

Education must be taken out of the hands of rich illiterates, third rate politicians, and put where it belongs: in the care of scholars. At present the whole University system is rotten to the core, and an appalling waste of time, energy and money.

Death always leaves one singer to mourn.

Most people won't realise that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.

It's a man's world, and you men can have it.

I do not understand the world, but I watch it's progress.