Dinner at the Huntercombes' possessed only two dramatic features - the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy.

Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.

I get a warm feeling among my books.

Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.

It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what they think happens to them.

One of the worst things about life is not how nasty the nasty people are. You know that already. It is how nasty the nice people can be.

The whole idea of interviews is in itself absurd - one cannot answer deep questions about what one's life was like - one writes novels about it.

One passes through the world knowing few, if any, of the important things about even the people with whom one has been from time to time in the closest intimacy.

Parents. . . are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early years.

He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Selflove seems so often unrequited.

Books do furnish a room.

You say he's childish, but he's very professional about business transactions.

My worldview, my philosophy, my attitudes, my relationships, my parenting, my marriage - everything has been transformed by my relationship with Christ.

He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.

The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.

Friends of mine that are from here or that have spent time here have told me about Israel and how warm the people are and that I should someday come here.

The pervert." "He prefers to think of himself as sexual deviant." "Semantics.

I'm obsessed with cooking shows, even though they make everything look so easy when it isn't.

It isn't that inspiration doesn't exist, but it comes only with writing.

And I've got some screenplays and plays ready to dip into when I need to.