And I identify too closely with my reading, with my writing.

I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still

If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.

There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.

I had always imagined myself hitching up on to my elbows on the delivery table after it was all over - dead white, of course, with no makeup and from the awful ordeal, but smiling and radiant, with my hair down to my waist, and reaching out for my first little squirmy child and saying its name, whatever it was.

There was a beautiful time.

I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists