It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

I treasure solitude. One doesn't have to have human contact.

Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.

I am so happy to be communicating with people on this newest of new wavelengths which to some older people must seem like a kind of magic.

Loneliness, she thought, was craving for other people's company. But she did not know that loneliness can be an unnoticed cramping of the spirit for lack of companionship.