Once I read autobiography as what the writer thought about his or her life. Now I think, 'This is what they thought at that time'. An interim report - that is what an autobiography is.

I am so happy to be communicating with people on this newest of new wavelengths which to some older people must seem like a kind of magic.

I would not be at all surprised to find out . . . that the dimensions of buildings affect us in ways we don't guess.

Capable people do not understand incapacity; clever people do not understand stupidity.

If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.

All one's life as a young woman one is on show, a focus of attention, people notice you. You set yourself up to being noticed and admired. And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous.

All my friends' mothers were appalling women.