To be the only possessor of news that will interest many people is always to be in a powerful position. - Howard Spring

I wasn't an artist of any sort, but I thought I knew something about how artists' minds worked, and I didn't believe that to change an external situation had much to do with it. It was what they did with whatever was lying about that mattered.

She had scuttled to earth like a beetle that knows it is in danger of being trodden on.

I was beginning to see that my whole life had been a flight from the possibility of unearthing the sort of man I really was.