We tend not to choose the unknown, which might be a shock or a disappointment or simply a little difficult to cope with. An yet it is the unknown with all its disappointments and surprises that is the most enriching.

A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.

Can you write a book and have children at the same time? Yes, if you're content to do it very very slowly.

Ideally, both members of a couple in love free each other to new and different worlds.

I should like to be a full-time Mother and a full-time Artist and a full-time Wife-Companion and also a 'Charming Woman' on the side! And to be aware and record it all. I cannot do it all. Something must go - several things probably. The 'charming woman' first!

Travel Far, Pay No Fare... a book can take you anywhere.

America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.