Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don't understand.

One's intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.

I hope my books make statements about our general condition.

I suppose drama can either take the place of a novel or can be very closely allied with it. It's quite customary to turn a successful novel into a film or a television series because you can dramatize and pictorialize a novel.

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

Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?

Worse than madness. Sanity.