Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.

Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.

That she had so completely recovered her sanity was a source of sadness to her. One should never be cured of one's passion.

What stops you killing yourself when you're intoxicated out of your mind is the thought that once you're dead you won't be able to drink any more.

I don't have general views about anything, except social injustice.

The outrage was on the scale of God. My younger brother was immortal and they hadn't noticed. Immortality had been concealed in my brother's body while he was alive, and we hadn't noticed that it dwelt there. Now my brother's body was dead, and immortality with it. ... And the error, the outrage, filled the whole universe.

It has been my face. It's got older still, or course, but less, comparatively, than it would otherwise have done. It's scored with deep, dry wrinkles, the skin is cracked. But my face hasn't collapsed, as some with fine feature have done. It's kept the same contours, but its substance has been laid waste. I have a face laid waste.