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

I think they've got 250 languages in Nigeria, and so English is a sort of lingua franca between the 250 languages.

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

I think there might even come a time when I would read Virgil again. Ovid's Metamorphoses, perhaps, not because the music goes round and round and never comes out, but because it's an extraordinary picture of ceaseless change that never comes to an end.

He doesn't mind if he dies... indeed, he would like to die; but yet he fears to fall. He would welcome a long sleep; but not at the price of falling to it.

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

It wasn't until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you've got to write your own books and nobody else's, and then everything followed from there.