I find myself increasingly shocked at the unthinking and automatic rubbishing of men which is now so part of our culture that it is hardly even noticed.

Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.

Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them.

In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

I have a daughter and two grand-daughters and a great grandson in Africa, in Cape Town.

What is charm then? The free giving of a grace, the spending of something given by nature in her role of spendthrift ... something extra, superfluous, unnecessary, essentially a power thrown away.