I didn't even know I was a feminist until I read it on the back of one of my own books.

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.

My experience of men in cars has always been that if you don't want them to do something, they will. It is when they are behind a wheel that they most fear the control of women and children.

If infinity is as they describe it, all things are not just possible but in the end certain.

Preserve your peace of mind. There is not much time; all things end in death. Do not lament the past too much, or fear the future too acutely, ot waste too much energy on other peoples' woes, in case the present dissolves altogether.

There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.

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