You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go.

I was the basest of readers. All I wanted was my own world, and myself in it, given back to me in artful shapes and accessible form.

What was it with men, that they found elementary logic so difficult?

If life was a dream, then dying must be the moment when you woke up. It was so simple it must be true. You died, the dream was over, you woke up. That's what people meant when they talked about going to heaven. It was like waking up.

By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage.

We go on our hands and knees and crawl our way towards the truth

It was always the view of my parents...that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people.