It's curious how, when you're in love, you yearn to go about doing acts of kindness to everybody.

It was a nasty look. It made me feel as if I were something the dog had brought in and intended to bury later on, when he had time.

From my earliest years I had always wanted to be a writer. It was not that I had any particular message for humanity. I am still plugging away and not the ghost of one so far, so it begins to look as though, unless I suddenly hit mid-season form in my eighties, humanity will remain a message short.

Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.

To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

She's a sort of human vampire-bat

I never want to see anyone, and I never want to go anywhere or do anything. I just want to write.