I must say that I am not very genteel and I feel that gentility has a stranglehold: the neatness, the wonderful tidiness, which is so evident everywhere in England is perhaps more dangerous than it would appear on the surface.

We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.

Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.

I would catch sight of some flawless man off in the distance, but as soon as he moved closer I immediately saw he wouldn’t do at all.

You have to be able to make a real creative life for Yourself, before you can expect anyone Else to provide one ready-made for you.

The future is what matters — because one never reaches it, but always stays in the present — like the White Queen who had to run like the wind to remain in the same spot.

No day is safe from news of you.