Writing has freed me from the despair of living.

Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.

I need noise and interruptions and irritation: irritation and discomfort are a great starter. The loneliness of doing it any other way would kill me.

Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.

I was brought up among the sort of self-important women who had a husband as one has an alibi.