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.

You must remember garden catalogues are as big liars as house-agents.

cleverness is a disease.

As one gets older being sad and miserable can become a bit of a habit. To counteract this, she suggests making a point of savoring such things as the tastiness of a piece of fruit, or other small things we might have been prone to overlook during our younger, busier days.

Memory is the only friend of grief.

To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories - that is the way it falls.