No One Is Patriotic About Taxes.

The Writers I Care About Most And Never Grow Tired Of Are: Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Charles Reade, Flaubert And, Among Modern Writers, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot And D. H. Lawrence. But I Believe The Modern Writer Who Has Influenced Me Most Is Somerset Maugham, Whom I Admire Immensely For His Power Of Telling A Story Straightforwardly And Without Frills.

For A Creative Writer Possession Of The 'truth' Is Less Important Than Emotional Sincerity.

In The Face Of Pain There Are No Heroes.

What Happens To You Here Is Forever.

If Both The Past And The External World Exist Only In The Mind, And If The Mind Itself Is Controllable - What Then?