Quotes from Randolph Stow

I find that there is no speech that is not soliloquy. And yet, always, I sense an audience.

Personally, I'd sooner be a cabbage than a crackpot. Cabbages have the respect of their neighbours.

It was late afternoon, and the sun laid sharp golden halo on the ridges of the dunes, glinting on the grey-green leaves of the scrub. Behind the line of dunes that closed the valley to the south, the sea was peacefully snoring. Blue shadow crept across the flat sand floor, and the air grew sharp.