It is the man who is sure of himself who disregards the opinion of the world. To be sure is to have power.

There is and always has been for me a peculiar need to write. This is very different from wanting to be a writer. To be a writer always seemed something so far removed from my talents and abilities and imaginings that it didn't afflict me at all as a notion when I was young. But I was always conscious that I wanted to write.

when married people begin to talk about their rights, it means something has gone pretty far wrong between them.

Anger was both a disfiguring and a revealing passion.

Money's a very serious thing - especially when you haven't got any.

When you've just made the most complete fool of yourself, you feel the need of a specially high horse to ride.

It is the man who is sure of himself who disregards the opinion of the world. To be sure is to have power.