England is a country where people stay exactly as they are. The soul does not receive the slightest jolt.

I think of a writer as a river: you reflect what passes before you.

The true defense against wealth is not a fear of wealth - of its fragility and of the vicious consequences that it can bring - the true defense against wealth is an indifference to money.

You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials

Over my real sorrows I never weep.

When I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she was a child, between walls and trees that are hers.

England is a country where people stay exactly as they are. The soul does not receive the slightest jolt.