I have to conclude that fiction is better at 'the truth' than a factual record.

I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.

What I really can't stand about the feminist revolution is that it produced some of the smuggest, most unselfcritical people the world has ever seen. They are horrible.

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Nicknames are potent ways of cutting people down to size.

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.

I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing.