But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.

I also know Patrick White in Australia, both personally and as a writer, and Salman Rushdie in India.

It may be -- I hope it is -- redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.

Which is better--to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?

Of the authors writing in English, I'd mention Shakespeare and Milton. But all this is terribly high-hat and makes me sound very po-faced, I'm afraid; however, I just happen to like these enormous, swinging, great creatures.

It wasn't until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you've got to write your own books and nobody else's, and then everything followed from there.