"Titles are an important part of a story and I take considerable care in choosing one. In fact, I cannot start a story until I have chosen a title."

"Decision is a vastly important thing with a convicted sinner. He must choose, or he must be lost. If he will not do it, he may expect the Divine Spirit to depart from him, and leave him to his own way…"

"My thinking at that time was determined by a kind of wilfully repressed pleasure in Freud ,and I wanted to be as artistically direct as plumber illustrating the history of art with a spanner."

"Migrant workers, dismissed by employers, enjoying no protection from their governments, often thrown out of their accommodation by their landlords, in urgent need of food, transport and money, driven …"

"The people itself has always given art its essential style. The artist merely clarifies and fullfils the will of the people. But when the people does not know what it wants, or worst of all, wants not…"