Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

In fact I've reached the stage where I look at people and say - he or she, they are whole at all because they've chosen to block off at this stage or that. People stay sane by blocking off, by limiting themselves.

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

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

I am sure everyone has had the experience of reading a book and finding it vibrating with aliveness, with colour and immediacy. And then, perhaps some weeks later, reading it again and finding it flat and empty. Well, the book hasn't changed: you have.

For women like me, integrity isn't chastity, it isn't fidelity, it isn't any of the old words. Integrity is the orgasm. That is something I haven't any control over.