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

- Edward St Aubyn

No pain is too small if it hurts, but any pain is too big if it's cherished.

- Edward St Aubyn

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 tru…

- Edward St Aubyn

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.

- Edward St Aubyn

People never remeber happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering.

- Edward St Aubyn

I see the author as the person who has written; the writer, the one involved in the process of writing. And they're not necessarily friends. The writ…

- Edward St Aubyn

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

- Edward St Aubyn

Surely: the adverb of a man without an argument.

- Edward St Aubyn

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

- Edward St Aubyn