Intelligence forbids tears.

I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame.

In fact I've reached the stage where I look at people and say - he or she, they are whole at all because they've chosen to block off at this stage or that. People stay sane by blocking off, by limiting themselves.

You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant.

A woman without a man cannot meet a man, any man, of any age, without thinking, even if it's for a half-second, 'Perhaps this is THE man.

Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.

Dreams have always been my friend, full of information, full of warnings.