What keeps me going is my children.

The garden where you sit Has never a need of flowers, For you are the blossoms And only a fool or the blind Would fail to know it

Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?

The De Bernières were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.

People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States.

Remember that fear causes to happen the very things it fears. That's why fear should be unknown to us.

In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.