The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.

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

I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.

We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.

Honestly, I haven't the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.

Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood.

Every novel is a biography. Well, then, this is a novel [The Paper Men] which is a biography that is pretending to be an autobiography. That's what you could say about it.