I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.

A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.

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

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

All politicians are not the same. I've never felt that way. What is the same is that voters get very excited about new faces, like Clinton and Blair - and they have unrealistic expectations that the world will change overnight. A cynical old hand like myself knows that it won't.

...or like an old friend one has known too well and doesn't want to see.

The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms.