In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

Better Counsel comes overnight.

Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment, learn inner independence, learn to trust that time will sort the good from the bad– including your own bad.

Knowing cats, a lifetime of cats, what is left is a sediment of sorrow quite different from that due to humans: compounded of pain for their helplessness, of guilt on behalf of us all.

Literature is analysis after the event.

I wasn't an active feminist in the '60s, never have been.