The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life.

Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape.

The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say nothing.

The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times.

People are able to live with only half a heart, to live without real compassion, because they are able to use words that are only forms.

I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common.

Life isn't just to be found, you have to work for it.

Once a Catholic always a Catholic.

The roots of art and play lie very close together.

All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't.

Gerald Middleton was a man of mildly but persistently depressive temperament. Such men are not at their best at breakfast, nor is the week before Christmas their happiest time.

Work is a blessing when it helps us to think about what we are doing

We become side-tracked if we make physical health our aim and imagine that because we are children of God we shall always be perfectly well.

Jenny retained a flimsy essence of the truth. It was a quiet knowing she'd always hold in her heart...''Broken Mirror by Oliver Rixon

Well. I always like it when you kiss me.Do you?You're good at it.Well, that's lucky, because I'll always be kissing you.

The fascist state is the corporate state.

One puts into one's art what one has not been capable of putting into one's existence. It is because he was unhappy that God created the world.

I like men who are more in their heads.

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations.

I have a certain image that's more classic, and I'm happy to stay out of the fray.

A sewer is a cynic. It tells All.