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

Women often get dropped from memory, and then history.

All I do is give interviews and spend time being photographed.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.

The automatic reaction of practically any young person is, at once, against authority. That, I think, began in the First World War because of the trenches, and the incompetence of the people on all fronts.

When I started, there were no big interviews, no television, no profiles and all that. The publishers were quite shockingly uncommercial, but they did look after their writers.