Writers Should Provoke Disagreement.

This Is Unusual For Me. I Have Given Readings And Not Lectures. I Have Told People Who Ask For Lectures That I Have No Lecture To Give. And That Is True.

The Biography Of A Writer - Or Even The Autobiography - Will Always Have This Incompleteness.

If You Decide To Move To Another Country And To Live Within Its Laws You Don't Express Your Disregard For The Essence Of The Culture. It's A Form Of Aggression.

In Our Island Myth This Was The Prescribed End Of Marriages Like Mine: The Wife Goes Off With Someone From The Cercle Sportif, Outside Whose Gates At Night The Willingly Betrayed Husband Waits In His Motorcar. The Circumstances Were Slightly.

I Had No Student Friends To Talk To About Literature. My Tutor Was A Really Nice Man, Very Charming - But He Had No Literary Judgment.