If men ever discovered how tough women actually are, they would be scared to death.

Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history.

The astronomers tell us that other planets are gifted with two - four - even nine lavish moons. Imagine the romantic possibilities of nine moons.

It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.

I suppose it is a gift, being young, but it isn't special. We've all got it, early in life.

I sat staring up at a shelf in my workroom from which thirty-one books identically dressed in neat dark green leather stared back at me with a sort of cold hostility like children who resent their parents. Don't stare at us like that! they said. Don't blame us if we didn't turn out to be the perfection you expected. We didn't ask to be brought into the world.

I never would just open a door and walk through, I had to bust it down for the hell of it. I just naturally liked doing things the hard way.