My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.

For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.

Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words.

There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.

'I will not stand for being called a woman in my own house' she said.

The Welsh are the only nation in the world that has produced no graphic or plastic art, no architecture, no drama. They just sing. Sing and blow down wind instruments of plated silver.

The Roman Catholic Church has the unique power of keeping remote control over human souls which have once been part of her. G.K. Chesterton has compared this to the fisherman's line, which allows the fish the illusion of free play in the water and yet has him by the hook; in his own time the fisherman by a 'twitch upon the thread' draws the fish to land.