Ah, we have to be generous to be grateful ... One has oneself to be a giver.

There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

I think I feel on the whole that something's there trying to get out ... It's sort of trying to get out and wants help.

I am ill at ease with people whose lives are an open book.

I wonder the human race has been so fond of migrations, when the young take so hardly to traveling.

When I die, people will say it is the best thing for me. It is because they know it is the worst. They want to avoid the feeling of pity. As though they were the people most concerned!

At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.