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.

Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually

Every time you open your wardrobe, you look at your clothes and you wonder what you are going to wear. What you are really saying is 'Who am I going to be today?

All mothers love their own children as best they can, according to their temperament and circumstances, and all mothers should have done better, in their children's eyes, when the going gets tough for the children.

Style is what's there when you look at someone's writing and you know that they wrote it and nobody else did.

Words are not simple things: they take unto themselves, as they have through time, power and meaning.

If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.