Human Kindness Is Like A Defective Tap,

Unnatural Death Always Provoked A Peculiar Unease, An Uncomfortable Realization That There Were Still Some Things That Might Not Be Susceptible To Bureaucratic Control.

I Still Occasionally Need To Struggle But I Now Fear It Less. The Weapons I Fight It With Are Also My Consolations: Books, Music, Food, Wine, Nature.

I Find It Extraordinary That A Straightforward If Inelegant Device For Ensuring The Survival Of The Species Should Involve Human Beings In Such Emotional Turmoil. Does Sex Have To Be Taken So Seriously?

Books Of Quotations ... Afford Me One Of The Most Undemanding But Satisfying Forms Of Reading Pleasure.

Authors Always Take Rejection Badly. They Equate It With Infanticide.