Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met.

Kids are perfect people till grownups get their hands on them.

The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it's not work for me.

The gardener had a dread of small women; he'd always imagined them to have an anger disproportionate to their size.

There's nothing as scary as the future.

It is much easier to be flexible about where a story begins than it ever was for me to change my mind about where and how a story ended.

Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.