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

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.

With everything that happens to you, with everyone you meet who is important to you, you either die a little or are born.

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

There is an Indian proverb that says that everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an emtional, and a spiritual . Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time but unless we go into every room every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person.

Every piece of writing starts from what I call a grit a sight or sound, a sentence or happening that does not pass away but quite inexplicably lodges in the mind.

People don't know the consolations of being unsuccessful ... If I had been successful I should have had no peace or time.