Edward St Aubyn Quotations

You can only give things up once they start to let you down.

Everything was usual. That was depression: being stuck, clinging to an out-of-date version of oneself.

It seems people spend the majority of their lives believing they're dying, with the only consolation being that at one point they get to be right.

Well, the attractive thing about the subject of happiness is that it is notoriously difficult to write.

I think that some laughter comes from escaped horror, doesn't it?

I'm not trying to uncover the facts of my life but to discover the dramatic truth of the situations I was in.

It's no use imagining that bringing great writers together inevitably precipitates great conversation.

The Booker 2011 is of no more interest to me than the world heavyweight championship, which I'm not going to win either. It's irrelevant.

The first book I fell in love with was 'Little Toot,' the story of an adorable tugboat operating out of New York Harbor.

The whole 'Melrose' series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that there is some salutary or liberating power in telling the truth.