I don't understand it when people get cross about how one of their works was adapted and say, 'Oh, they ruined it!' Well, the book is still there.
We make our own orange sherbet and I think people miss it in the winter.
It's easy to write a short story and frighten people for five pages, but to work at length, when you do it as in 'The Turn Of The Screw' or 'A Christmas Carol,' it's different; you have to build it and build it.
The New Testament is about loving other people as you love yourself. That means caring for them and looking after them and being kind to them.
I'm not one of those people who hates Amazon because they're big. Why pay a third more for the same thing?
Some people make tunes, but it is lines that run like moving messages through my head. Whatever else I am saying and doing often has no bearing on this inner, verbal life.