rain is one thing the British do better than anybody else.

When a baby first looks at you...when it laughs that deep, unselfconscious gurgle; or when it cries and you pick it up and it clings sobbing to you...then you are-happy is not the precise word-filled.

there's no justice, there's only love.

All the women I know feel a little like outlaws.

in a way it doesn't matter whether you open doors or close them, you still end up in a box.

One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

Oh, God, why don't I remember that a little chaos is good for the soul?