A very powerful theme in fiction is that of loss.

The people with the strong, brave exteriors are just as weak and vulnerable as the rest of us. And of course they never admit to their childish practices, their moments of weakness or absurdity, and then the rest of us think that's how it should be.

A very powerful theme in fiction is that of loss.

There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one.

There are many women whose lives would be immeasurably improved by widowhood, but one should not always point that out.

Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in general. Sheer boredom...

I am just a tiny person in Africa, but there is a place for me, and for everybody, to sit down on this earth and touch it and call it their own.