Life itself is a quotation.

A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose…

Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you can, because if not, the reader's imagination…

The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.

There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country…

I don't know why I told this story. I could just as well have told another. Perhaps some other time I'll be able to tell another. Living souls, you will see ho…

It's like deja vu all over again.