You did not so much mind being -conventionally- betrayed, if you were not kept in the dark, which was humiliating, or defined only as a wife and dependent person, which was annihilating.

Funny way to spend your life, though, studying another chap's versifying.

I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the second world war.

In our world of sleek flesh and collagen, botox and liposuction, what we most fear is the dissolution of the body-mind, the death of the brain.

Never stop paying attention to things. Never make your mind up finally. Do not hold beliefs.

Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.

You are safe with me." "I am not at all safe, with you. But I have no desire to be elsewhere.