This is what I like, sitting at a table and watching people go by. It does something to your outlook on life. The Anglo-Saxons make a great mistake not staring at people from a sidewalk table.

I think people often try to find through sex things that are much easier to find in other ways.

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

I know you have it in you, Guy," Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, "the capacity to be terribly happy.

When I am thickening my plots, I like to think 'What if ... What if ... ' Thus my imagination can move from the likely, which everyone can think of, to the unlikely-but-possible, my preferred plot.

I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.

Every man is his own law court and punishes himself enough.