The prize I value most was given to me 60 years ago. I was named the girl with the cleanest fingernails.

I've never been put down by a man, unless I deserved it, and have never felt inferior.

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

The vital accessories to my work are my reference books, such as the complete Shakespeare and a prayer book, and a large refuse bin.

The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour

There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky.

It is the generation of the unemphatic. Steal, kill, lie, fornicate, but beware of indulging with conviction.