What women will say to other women grumbling in their kitchens and complaining and gossiping or what they make clear in their masochism is often the last thing they will say aloud - a man may overhear. Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long.

I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.

I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones moving easily under the flesh.

When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia.

there are two kinds of humanity, those who dream and those who don't, and both tend to despise, or to tolerate, the other.

for real pleasure a pleasure resort should have no one in it but its legitimate inhabitants, oneself, and perhaps one's friends.