Why do people who are good at families have to be smug and assume it is the only way to live. … Why can’t they be blamed for being bad at promiscuity?

My guess is that she is uncomfortable in such an intransigent world but is unable to live accordingly to her own desire.

I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.

I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.

You don't stop loving someone just because you hate them.

England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place ... an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines.

Being in love means being at the mercy of someone's childhood.