The great tragedy of Alzheimer's disease, and the reason why we dread it, is that it leaves us with no defence, not even against those who love us.

I don't see why escapist literature shouldn't also be a work of art.

Increase your word power. Words are the raw material of our craft.

If this were fiction, could even the most brilliant novelist contrive to make credible so short a period in which pride had been subdued and prejudice overcome?

I find it extraordinary that a straightforward if inelegant device for ensuring the survival of the species should involve human beings in such emotional turmoil. Does sex have to be taken so seriously?

No literary form is more revealing, more spontaneous or more individual than a letter.

The tragedy of loss is not that we grieve, but that we cease to grieve, and then perhaps the dead are dead at last.