I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.

One knows one's done one's job as a parent properly if one's children reject everything one stands for.

I have been disappointed many times, but never defeated.

My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

To counter-balance the natural humility of motherhood, I garden ... In the garden, more than any place, I really feel successful.

Motherhood is the most dangerous and awesome relationship possible. ... The parent/child blood relationship is one-sided and irrevocable and enduring. And it is all rather humbling.

To have something which one particularly wants to do is more important than anything else. It is even more important than succeeding in that thing you want to do. In fact it does not matter if you fail, but it does matter that you do or do not want to do something.