Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover seeds of truth.

Why, he wondered, did people who had been asleep always want to make out that they were extremely wide-awake?

King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good man, they say.

I believe that the main thing in beginning a novel is to feel, not that you can write it, but that it exists on the far side of a gulf, which words can't cross: that it's to be pulled through only in a breathless anguish.

I will dream today; for I must unscrew my head somehow.

Oh, but she never wanted James to grow a day older or Cam either. These two she would have liked to keep for ever just as the way they were, demons of wickedness, angels of delight, never to see them grow up into long-legged monsters.

The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.