On the news two dozen events of fantastically different importance are announced in exactly the same tone of voice. The voice doesn't discriminate between a divorce, a horse race, a war in the Middle East.

Dreams have always been my friend, full of information, full of warnings.

If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.

This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we - we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.

There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.

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

I am interested only in stretching myself, on living as fully as I can.