I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens.

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

Truly God was good, to make man so blind.

What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance?

... the most insoluble problems are those which by their very nature can have no space within them for dreams.

It's no fun to be a bluestocking in a family of jockstraps.

If you love people, they kill you. If you need people, they kill you. They do I tell you!