“He looked out of the window to think, because without a window he couldnt think. Or Maybe it was the other way round: where there was a window, he automatically started to think. Then he wrote, Whe...”

“Thomas loved words, particularly if he didn’t understand them.”

“He looked out of the window to think, because without a window he couldn’t think. Or Maybe it was the other way round: where there was a window, he automatically started to think. Then he wrote, ‘W...”

“All words are pegs to hang ideas on.”

“A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.”

“No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake....”