Each book is, in a sense, an argument with myself, and I would write it, whether it is ever published or not.

If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies

The kiss became the narrowed center of the still point of the turning world, so that even the park was turning in comparison to the still peace at their lips.

The night was a time for bestial affinities, for drawing closer to oneself.

one blow in anger [would] kill, probably, a child from aged two to eight. Those over eight would take two blows to kill.

That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had nothing behind me. I was working like a fool to earn a living and pay for my apartment

And no book, and possibly no painting, when it is finished, is ever exactly like the first dream of it.