It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.

Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.

I went abroad to Malaya and came back and tended naturally to gravitate towards the south, I suppose, near London where things seemed to be going on; but I'm still a Lancashire man, and what I want to write someday is a novel about Manchester. Very much a regional novel.

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.

Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.

The old days are dead and gone days. For what I did in the past I have been punished. I have been cured.