She was a terrible mother, there was no doubt about it, but she didn't even have the strength to feel guilty.

I have been to the world's end and back and now I know what I would put in my bottom drawer .I would put my sisters.

I can't imagine what it would be like to write in a relaxed state. I'm going to be writing some stories for my own interest. I want to experiment with different things and see if I can approach writing with much less control and in a better psychological state. It will be like breaking out of a straitjacket.

The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.

I am mad, I think. I am mad therefore I think. I am mad therefore I think I am.

I can't help but think that it's an unfortunate custom to name children after people who come to sticky ends. Even if they are fictional characters, it doesn't bode well for the poor things. There are too many Judes and Tesses and Clarissas and Cordelias around. If we must name our children after literary figures then we should search out happy ones, although it's true they are much harder to find.

As I watch, the sky fills with clouds of snow feathers from every kind of bird there ever was and even some that only exist in the imagination, like the bluebirds that fly over the rainbow.