Under the force of the imagination, nature itself is changed.
A triptych in which the presiding deities are Mother, England and Me.
I detest self-regard. If my work has taught me anything, it is that self-aggrandisement is completely unhistorical.
Yet, like the sea and the gallows, London refuses nobody.
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 don't know if I have a voice of my own. I don't see me being an important person with something to say. I haven't. I've got nothing to say. My opinion is of no consequence or value.