We should be careful of the insults we fling at others, lest they return and land at our feet, newly minted to apply to those who had first coined them.

Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age.

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

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

Everything has been something before.

The problem, of course, was that people did not seem to understand the difference between right and wrong. They needed to be reminded about this, because if you left it to them to work out for themselves, they would never bother. They would just find out what was best for them, and then they would call that the right thing. That's how most people thought.

I'm very interested in tea. I wouldn't mind being involved in some aspect of the tea industry.