Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment.

We are all creatures of the stars.

I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars.

Knowing cats, a lifetime of cats, what is left is a sediment of sorrow quite different from that due to humans: compounded of pain for their helplessness, of guilt on behalf of us all.

I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'

For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature.

One certainty we all accept is the condition of being uncertain and insecure.