Art is never finished only abandoned.
At the moment of childbirth every woman has the same aura of isolation as though she were abandoned alone.
Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down I love Lucille Ball. It's just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can't convincingly portray at this age.
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money still less as is apt to happen when these are abandoned of race but of age.
Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day.