If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that makes a carpet wear, gives it its life and bloom.

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

cleverness is a disease.

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

I loved Mr. Darcy far more than any of my own husbands.

When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.

Once you have felt the Indian dust, you will never be free of it.