[On Ian Fleming:] The trouble with Ian is that he gets off with women because he can't get on with them.

The novel will never die, but it will keep changing and evolving and taking different shapes.

[On Ian Fleming:] The trouble with Ian is that he gets off with women because he can't get on with them.

One should always act from one's inner sense of rhythm.

People have been saying the novel is dead for as far back as I can remember. The novel will never die, but it will keep changing and evolving and taking different shapes. Storytelling, which is the basis of the novel, has always existed and always will.

In a corner of the churchyard grew a plantation of white violets, enormously plump and prosperous-looking. ... I saw the dead stretched out under me in the earth, feeding these flowers with a thin milk drawn from their bones.

when two people unite, kindness must be mutual, or shocking things will happen.