Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don't try and mean it. Nor prayers. The liturgy is best treated and read as if it's someone announcing the departure of trains.

At eighty things do not occur; they recur.

What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.

Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key.

I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.

History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.

Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.