I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.

My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

Everything human is alien to me.

Life is a long failure of understanding ... a long, mistaken shutting of the heart.

Each book is, in a sense, an argument with myself, and I would write it, whether it is ever published or not.

One situation – maybe one alone – could drive me to murder: family life, togetherness.

And no book, and possibly no painting, when it is finished, is ever exactly like the first dream of it.

I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.

How easy it was to lie when one had to lie!

For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.

It always gets late with you. - Is that a compliment?

A successful man is like a bottle of wine, just gets better with age.

You will do as you are told the second you are told to do it. Is that clear?''I'm not six mother, I think I can grasp standard sentences.' Whether I chose to pay attention to them however...

The smuggling and distribution of misbranded drugs and medical devices of uncertain foreign origin has the potential for serious harm to patients.

We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers.

Practice, which some regard as a chore, should be approached as just about the most pleasant recreation ever devised.

With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise; March!

Oh courage...oh yes! If only one had that...Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.

If you look deep inside trust, you'll find truth.

The hearings are just like a snake about to devour people.

The heart of the human problem, is the problem of the human heart.