Life is a mirror, it reflects your face. Be friendly, and all of life will reflect friendliness.
Somewhere inside we do know everything about ourselves. There is no real forgetting. Perhaps we know somewhere, too, about all there is to come.
I just knew I would be a writer. It just seemed the only sensible thing to do.
I gave myself to my children. It happens to some women.
I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement.
The complexion of a novelist is seldom rosy (Paul Bailey once announced to a heavy-hearted audience of novelists at PEN that we have always been an ugly tribe). We are engaged in indoor activity, haemorrhoidal, prone to chillblains, poor of circulation.
If you've not been loved as a child, you don't know how to love a child.
I am the shortest and least funny person in my family.
Every solution breeds new problems.
By the way, I'm funniest when I'm not being funny. I'm better to laugh at than with, pretty much.
I love Jesus, who said to us: Heaven and earth will pass away. When heaven and earth have passed away, my word will remain. What was your word, Jesus? Love? Forgiveness? Affection? All your words were one word: Wakeup.