It was - it's always very nice to be somebody rather grand.
Try not to cry too much because it can be pretty heart-breaking and pretty hard.
Theres a difference between solitude and loneliness
The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn't have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places?
Don't be defeatist, dear, it's very middle class.
Which is strange - I've always thought of myself as someone who writes out of difficulty. And I did do that, but I came out on the side of light more often than not.