Expansion. That is the idea the novelist must cling to. Not completion. Not rounding off, but opening out.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.

Human beings have their great chance in the novel.

Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.

We move between two darknesses.

we may say that History develops, Art stands still

Your future is bright as the morning sun.

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.

At Arsenal we play a very attractive, offensive style so I always have to be aware of counter attacks when you have to shift your position a lot more.

If I can find something that I haven't done before, then that is an immediate...it peaks my interest.

I believe that ultimately it all comes down to whether we seek conscious contact with God on a daily basis through prayer and meditation.

Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.

I don't think I'm capable of making radical changes, but over a period of four or five years you can perceive very big changes, and they seem rather small at the time.

If your woman is asleep every time you get home, shes just really tired. Of you.

So the blues player, he ain't worried and bothered, but he's got something for the worried people.

I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get to meet.