All the people I have written about remain with me - perhaps they are my closest friends.

I've been trying to garden all my life - it just happens that I haven't had a big garden...until the past few years.

I enjoyed the whole process of learning and was always happy when autumn came and school or college started up again.

All writers behave badly. All people behave badly.

Everybody is vulnerable through love of their children. Hostages to fortune.

The young Dickens was so alive, so self-confident, so funny.

By the time I went up to Cambridge, I was extremely quiet and well behaved, although I now meet people who remember me as not like that at all.

He saw the world more vividly than other people, and reacted to what he saw with laughter, horror, indignation, and sometimes sobs.

Being himself was more exhausting than impersonating a stage character.

He could take on anything and everything, it seemed, rather than leave himself time to reflect on his dissatisfaction with his life and what he might do about it.

I always try to travel light.

she's so caught up she's unaware she's no longer the prisoner here, I am

When you are on the air, there is no land you need to call home.

Patience with family members and others who are close to us is vital for us to have happy homes.

Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.

The most important thing about skating is that it teaches you to do the things you should do before you do the things you want to do.

The liberating force of technology the instrumentalization of things turns into ... the instrumentalization of man.

Geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks, in the scale of the sciences, next to astronomy.

Living in Paris was a crash course in chic.

I stare out the window and wait for spring.

We should hold day with the Antipodes, If you would walk in absence of the sun.