Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.

Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.

The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.

Sometimes it seems that we might have been happier if we had once had an aristocracy to blame everything on.

People ... have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work.

There are few things more subtly distressing than an inappropriate gift from someone close to you.

Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.