"I saw a ghost once, about 20 years ago. It took the form of someone coming out of a sleeping body and sitting at the foot of the bed."

"I don't know if I have a voice of my own. I don't see me being an important person with something to say. I haven't. I've got nothing to say. My opinion is of no consequence or value."

"It sometimes seems to me that the whole course of English history was one of accident, confusion, chance and unintended consequences - there's no real pattern."

"If I did only one thing at a time I'd think I was wasting my time. If, for example, I only wrote novels I would feel like a charlatan and a fraud."

"If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism."

"I don't enjoy hearing the sound of my voice. The most important things for me are impossible to articulate extemporaneously."

"Wisdom principle 50 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 99."

"Wisdom principle 58 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 30."