I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.

I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted.

Humour is the best way to make the unbearable bearable.

He had no imagination either-fatal for one engaged in child-rearing

I don't want to be married just to be married.

Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.

My worries travel around in my head on their well worn path