Nowadays people write English as if a rat were caught in the typewriter and they were trying to hit the keys which wouldn't disturb it.

You can't recover from what you do not understand.

the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.

I am suspicious of guilt in myself and in other people; it is usually a way of not thinking, or of announcing one's own fine sensibilities the better to be rid of them fast.

I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.

We all lead more pedestrian lives than we think we do. The boiling of an egg is sometimes more important than the boiling of a love affair in the end.

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.