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

I'm not a critic so much of my own writing. People must make up their own minds over that.

What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.

Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.

Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.

One tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.