"When I began writing that I was able and did travel and met some fascinating people and also uncovered some history, which has not been discovered before."

"The president of General Motors was in a foul humor."

"I set myself 600 words a day as a minimum output, regardless of the weather, my state of mind or if I'm sick or well. There must be 600 finished words-not almost right words."

"I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life."

"I had one relative who passed away but fortunately none others. So my sort of experience of it is quite limited, thankfully."

"Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure."

"But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year."

"For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part."