I have no television - I hate it.

One situation – maybe one alone – could drive me to murder: family life, togetherness.

I have no television - I hate it.

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

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.

How was it possible to be afraid and in love... The two things did not go together. How was it possible to be afraid, when the two of them grew stronger together every day? And every night. Every night was different, and every morning. Together they possessed a miracle.

I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.