I believe it is customary to get one's washing over first in baths and bask afterwards; personally, I bask first. I have discovered that the first few minutes are the best and not to be wasted-- my brain always seethes with ideas and life suddenly looks much better than did.

It is rather exciting to write by moonlight.

There was a wonderful atmosphere of gentle age, a smell of flowers and beeswax, sweet yet faintly sour and musty; a smell that makes you feel very tender towards the past.

...With stories even a page can take me hours, but the truth seems to flow out as fast as I can get it down.

The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

I was wandering around as usual, in my unpleasantly populated sub-conscious.

Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them.