I don't know why I still find it so hard to accept that words are faulty and by their very nature innacurate

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

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

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

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

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.

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