Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.

The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.

I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.

I do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I think are important, and therefore I want people to take them seriously. And to read it twice of course is taking it seriously.

We're not savages. We're English.

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

How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?