A good man is as strong as the right woman needs him to be.

And money, if the pile gets high enough, is something like a big political party: it does as much harm as it does good, it puts too much power in too few hands, and the closer you come to it the dirtier you get.

The cloak of the past is cut from patches of feeling ,and sewn with rebus threads.Most of the time , the best we can do is wrap it around ourselves for comfort or drag it behind us as we struggle to go on .

Fanatics have the look of people who do not masturbate but who think about it almost all time.

Nothing ever fits the palm so perfectly, or feels so right, or inspires so much protective instinct as the hand of a child

Of course I wanted to know. I was a writer. I wanted to know everything.

Once you love something, you can never stop loving it. Even after a divorce, the heart will not stop loving.