Laughter is by definition healthy.

Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people have guts, the kind of guts on which a real democracy has to depend. Without people with that sort of guts a free society dies or cannot be born.

There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.

I hated the 1960's feminists," she says. "They were dogmatists, you see. In comes ideology, and out goes common sense. This is my experience of life.

As you get older, you don't get wiser. You get irritable.

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

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