What! I don't care about being a princess! And since I'm already a young lady, how else could I behave? That's like asking a fish not to swim!" ~Princess Eilonwy, daughter of Angharad, daughter of Regat, of the Royal house of Llyr

Are you slow-witted? I'm so sorry for you. It's terrible to be dull and stupid.

Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.

My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.

After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published.

Miss Vesper Holly has the digestive talents of a goat and the mind of a chess master. She is familiar with half a dozen languages and can swear fluently in all of them. She understands the use of a slide rule but prefers doing calculations in her head. She does not hesitate to risk life and limb- mine as well as her own. No doubt she has other qualities as yet undiscovered. I hope not.

Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun