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.

Fashions in sin change.

Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.

I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago.

Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.

It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.

How often the rich like to play at being poor. A rather nasty game, I've always thought.