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

Small things amuse small minds.

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

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

Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous.

But children can't be a center of life and a reason for being. They can be a thousand things that are delightful, interesting, satisfying, but they can't be a well-spring to live from. Or they shouldn't be.

All my friends' mothers were appalling women.