I don't know if I believe in God, but I know I believe in the devil. I have met him.

Memory is the only friend of grief.

You can be a nuisance to your family. You mustn't be a nuisance to your friends.

A writer who has never explored words, who has never searched, seeded, sieved, sifted through his knowledge and memory...dictiona ries, thesaurus, poems, favorite paragraphs, to find the right word, is like someone owning a gold mine who has never mined it.

Most grown people are like icebergs, three-tenths showing, seven-tenths submerged - that is why a collision with one of them is unexpectedly hurtful.

It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by.

It's only by being obstinate that anything is got, or done.