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

After a certain age - and for some of us that can be very young - there are no new people, beasts, dreams, faces, events: it has all happened before.

I never stopped reading.

Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them.

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.

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

The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.