She was made for untidy rooms and rumpled beds.

We don't forget.... Our heads may be small, but they are as full of memories as the sky may sometimes be full of swarming bees, thousands and thousands of memories, of smells, of places, of little things that happened to us and which came back, unexpectedly, to remind us who we are.

None of us knows how we will cope with snakes until the moment arises, and then most of us find out that we do not do it very well.

It was easy to be moral when that was the way you felt anyway. The hard bit about morality was making yourself feel the opposite of what you really felt.

Small things may be important to us; to be a sometime anything is sometimes something.

I have three older sisters, so we were a reasonably large family and, in general, a happy one.

Old friends, like old shoes, are comfortable. But old shoes, unlike old friends, tend not to be supportive: it is easier to stumble and sprain an ankle while wearing a pair of old shoes than it is in new shoes, with their less yielding leather.