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

I hope my books make statements about our general condition.

The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.

As soon as Oliver Twist is serialized, people who would never dream of reading [Charles] Dickens, if they hadn't seen him on their box, buy the paperback.

When you take a child who's hollering like hell, sit him on your knee, and say "once upon a time", you stop him hollering. As long as you go on telling him a story, he will listen. Novelists who neglect this fundamental effect do so at their peril. They become what is known as the experimental novelist, and an experimental novel is not really a novel at all.

This is our island. It's a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we'll have fun.

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