In London, I've always lived within 10 miles of where I was born. You see, there is something called a spirit of place, and my place happens to be London, at least once a fortnight.

I had to paraphrase the paraphrase.

The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of the national character.

I am in the Pitte, but I have gone so deep that I can see the brightness of the Starres at Noon.

To watch King Lear is to approach the recognition that there is indeed no meaning in life, and that there are limits to human understanding.

The endless chatter of this journey had wearied me.

My great fear has always been complete and utter failure. Hence, you see, all the dispossessed people in my fiction, and why I try to earn as much money as I can. It's a defense. I don't enjoy it or do anything with it.