If we say I love you, it may be received with doubt, for there are times when it is hard to believe. Say I hate you, and the one spoken to believes it instantly, once for all. ... Love must be learned, and learned again and again; there is no end to it. Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked.

Eventually women will learn there's no such thing as freedom. Their husbands are just as fastened to the deck as they are. Men get onto a treadmill and never got off.

I do not understand the world, but I watch it's progress.

Death always leaves one singer to mourn.

The past is never where you think you left it.

Most people won't realise that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.

I work whenever I'm let.