The Evil Always Comes From Details.

I Know Paradise Has Many Gates, Just As Hell Does. One Has To Learn To Distinguish Between Them, Or One Is Lost.

We Don't Have Time To Argue. Nobody Has Time.

I Do Not Understand How On Earth You Can Become A Writer Without Seeing The World.

Although Many Of His Other Novels Are Brilliant There Is A Power In 'oliver Twist' That I Believe Dickens Never Managed To Retrieve. It Is As If He Was Sent To This Earth With The Sole Purpose Of Writing This Book.

For Me Oliver Twist Is A Political Novel. It Is A Furious Critique Of The Treatment Of Orphans And Poor Children Who Were Forced To Spend Their Early Lives In Ghastly Institutions.