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.

But there were too many points at which the other self could invade the self he wanted to preserve, and there were too many forms of invasion: certain words, sounds, lights, actions his hands or feet performed, and if he did nothing at all, heard and saw nothing, the shouting of some triumphant inner voice that shocked him and cowed him.

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

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.

The justice I have received, I shall give back.

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

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