You know, women are burdened with all this other crap all the time, like looking good. You need to be really superhuman to be successful as a woman.
[H]ope takes you by the throat like a stranger, it makes your heart leap.
You don't get on by being original. You don't get on by being bright. You don't get on by being strong. You get on by being a subtle crook.
I'm one of these children who grew up at the knee of my grandmother and her elder sister, listening to very old people talk about their memories.
I didn't cry much after I was 35, but staggered stony-faced into middle age, a handkerchief still in my bag just in case.
People who wrote literary novels about the past probably didn't want them pegged as historical fiction. Certainly that was true in England.
I dislike pastiche; it attracts attention to the language only.
Money is only important when you don't have any.
Did you know, throughout the cosmos they found intelligent life forms that play to play? We are the only ones that play to win. Explains why we have more than our share of losers.
Art isn't supposed to change the world, but it can.
Always remember. . . . The people who usually hide their feelings care the most.