The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.

I also know Patrick White in Australia, both personally and as a writer, and Salman Rushdie in India.

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

Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?

They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.

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

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.