I'm afraid that if I started to ponder who I am and what I am, I might not like what I find.

You can be a hunchback and a dwarf and what-all. If you write beautifully, you can write beautifully.

It has forever been thus: So long as men write what they think, then all of the other freedoms - all of them - may remain intact. And it is then that writing becomes a weapon of truth, an article of faith, an act of courage.

I find dictating in the mass media particularly good because you're writing for voice anyway; you're writing for people to say a line and, consequently, saying a line through a machine is quite a valid test for the validity of what you're saying.

There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on.

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

Not since the British raided Cologne had so many bombs landed in such a small space in such a short time.