You remember with what you are at the time you are remembering.

I have a daughter and two grand-daughters and a great grandson in Africa, in Cape Town.

Anna, there's something very arrogant about insisting on the right to be right.

there are two kinds of humanity, those who dream and those who don't, and both tend to despise, or to tolerate, the other.

What is charm then? The free giving of a grace, the spending of something given by nature in her role of spendthrift ... something extra, superfluous, unnecessary, essentially a power thrown away.

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

I am increasingly afflicted by vertigo where words mean nothing