Miss X has always been a ditherer -- she was a ten month baby and has not improved in any material way since then.

I love seeing the bookshops and meeting the booksellers-- booksellers really are a special breed. No one in their right mind would take up clerking in a bookstore for the salary, and no one in his right mind would want to own one-- the margin of profit is too small. So, it has to be a love of readers and reading that makes them do it-- along with first dibs on the new books.

People don't know how chickens can turn on you, but they can -- just like mad dogs.

Do you suppose the St. Swithin's furnace-man was my one true love? Since I never spoke to him, it seems unlikely, but at least it was a passion unscathed by disappointment.

In a good mood I call my hair Chestnut with Gold Glints. In a bad mood, I call it mousy brown

I think you learn more if you're laughing at the same time.

Think of it! We could have gone on longing for one another and pretending not to notice forever. This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it.