Every time a child, any child, is born, it is new - and different; that is the wonder.

Of course one never knows in draft if it's going to turn out, even with my age and experience.

Memory is the only friend of grief.

if you think you know, you don't ask questions, or if you ask, you don't listen to the answers. Everyone, everything, each thing, is different, so that it isn't safe to know. You - you have to grope.

For an author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written.

Wanting is the beginning of getting.

Drink very good tea out of a thin Wocester cup of colour between apricot and pink.