Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity.

The privileges of knowledge have to be bought at the cost of the consolations of ignorance.

Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn.' To live alone?' To live. With what you are.

The best wines take the longest to mature.

The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke. We're so weak physically, so helpless with things. Still, even today. But we're stronger than they are. We can stand their cruelty. They can't stand ours.

There is no plan. All is hazard. And the only thing that will preserve us is ourselves.

I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks; I follow the path that seems most promising at any given point, not some itinerary decided before entry.