I felt trapped and fabricated in the fifties living up to other people's expectations.
My mind is not a bed to be made and remade.
New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.
Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.
The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else.
The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.
In her early days she had that beatific expression characteristic of Victorian prettiness - like a sheep painted by Raphael.
I'm raised to actually think, to use my brain.
Going slowly [. . . ] was the best way of being reminded that there is a relationship between Here and There, and that travel narrative was the story of There and Back.
Love is the strongest force in the world.
If people I've never met or don't know say that what I've written or done or said means anything to them, then I'm happy to take it at face value, for once. It cheers me up.