Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.

If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.

Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.

Most sex is not really intimate.

When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.

My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.

Having stopped expecting truth, we rarely get it.