The menopause is probably the least glamorous topic imaginable; and this is interesting, because it is one of the very few topics to which cling some shreds and remnants of taboo. A serious mention of menopause is usually met with uneasy silence; a sneering reference to it is usually met with relieved sniggers. Both the silence and the sniggering are pretty sure indications of taboo.

Even a poet cannot get everything right.

Literacy is so you can read the operating instructions.

The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?

To oppose something is to maintain it... You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road.

To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.

I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind.