I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future plusses.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back.

Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order.

Can one do nothing for the dead? And for a long time the answer had been - Nothing!

Regret is an appalling waste of time.

Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people.

I'm a writer first and a woman after.