[T]he impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision o — Angus Wilson

"Life isnt just to be found, you have to work for it."

"Youth is the time for loving, So poets often say."

"April, April, laugh thy girlish laughter, and the moment after, Weep thy girlish tears, April."

"God knows how you Protestants can be expected to have any sense of direction," she said. "Its different with us, I havent been to mass for years, Ive got every mortal sin on my conscience, but I know when Im doing wrong. Im still a Catholic, its there, nothing can take it away from me." "Of course, duckie," said Jeremy... "once a Catholic always a Catholic."

"The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they’ve been at other times."

"His fiction – radical, satirical, polyvalent, sexually courageous, global – extended the mainstream novel, and led it somewhere else. Still not fully recognized, he was one of Britains greatest late-twentieth-century writers."