Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.

You will find that women who are pregnant often don't want to be and women who aren't desperately envy those who are. Labour wards are always full of very punitive people.

I was seduced by secrets, which are to true love as artificial sweetener is to sugar, calorie-free but in the long run carcinogenic, not the real thing, and only a peculiar aftertaste in the mouth to tell you so, to warn you.

I am not cynical. I am just old. I know what is going to happen next.

One can learn, at least. One can go on learning until the day one is cut off.

Writing is more than just the making of a series of comprehensible statements: it is the gathering in of connotations; the harvesting of them, like blackberries in a good season, ripe and heavy, snatched from among the thorns of logic.

How has anyone ever understood anyone, except through love, which is wordless?