The writer can only explore the inner space of his characters by perceptively navigating his own.

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

We pay for security with boredom, for adventure with bother.

There are times when breakfast seems the one thing worth getting up for.

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues. Could you say we were guilty of Noel Cowardice?

Exercise is an unnatural act.