No amount of promises can guarantee love

Dear God, teach me to be careless.

How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.

Without love, most of life remains concealed. Nothing is as fascinating as love, unfortunately.

I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.

Anna Karenina is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. Its gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, its the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.

I began to enjoy my own generosity; I felt the pleasure of pleasing others, especially as this was accompanied by money-power. I was paying for them; they were grateful, they had to be; and they could no longer see me as a failure.