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

For there is never any way to go but in.

But children can't be a center of life and a reason for being. They can be a thousand things that are delightful, interesting, satisfying, but they can't be a well-spring to live from. Or they shouldn't be.

Perhaps it is not such a bad marriage after all? There are innumerable marriages where two people, both twisted and wrong in their depths, are well matched, making each other miserable in the way they need, in the way the pattern of their life demands.

Writers do not come out of houses without books.

Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew.

When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia.