In the shortest sea voyage there is no sense of time. You have been down in the cabin for hours or days or years. Nobody knows or cares. You know all the people to the point of indifference. You do not believe in dry land any more - you are caught in the pendulum itself, and left there, idly swinging.

England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy.

I'm a writer first and a woman after.

Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them.

It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible as you like - but a mask.

I really only have Perfect Fun with myself. Other people won't stop and look at the things I want to look at or, if they do, they stop to please me or to humor me or to keep the peace.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.