Country manners. Even if somebody phones up to tell you your house is burning down, they ask first how you are.

The thing is to be happy, no matter what. Just try that. You can. It gets to be easier and easier. It's nothing to do with circumstances. You wouldn't believe how good it is. Accept everything and then tragedy disappears. Or tragedy lightens, anyway, you're just there, going along easy in the world.

She would live now, not read.

People have thoughts they’d sooner not have. It happens in life.

In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I do this is not very straightforward.

Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.

He never wanted to be away from her. She had the spark of life.