...he could sense her breathing, her temple against his jaw and her shoulder under his hand were warm, her hair smelt of well-brushed hair, he could feel the presence of her body...

“Yevgeny Yevtushenko: 'You atheist?'"Kingsley Amis: 'Well, yes, but it's more th…”

“with some exceptions in science fiction and other genres I have small difficult…”

“You'll find that marriage is a good short cut to the truth. No, not quite that.…”

“Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, ne…”