Never hope for it more than you work for it.

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed.

In art as in politics we must deal with people as they are not as we wish them to be. Only by working with the real can you get closer to the ideal.

Mother believed in enjoying herself. Aunt Mimi believed in enjoying herself, then feeling guilty about it.

When the corpses are cleared no new order will emerge. Power, society, relationships, will descend in all their confusion on a new generation. The old, who started this conflagration, will retreat, worn out, the survivors and the young will continue the dance.

Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.