Read widely and with discrimination. Bad writing is contagious.

History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species.

Absolute nakedness was intrusive, confusing to the senses. Paradoxically, it both revealed and diminished identity.

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

we can forgive anything as long as it isn't done to us.

There are few couples as unhappy as those who are too proud to admit their unhappiness.

All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction.