I am not cynical. I am just old. I know what is going to happen next.

If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.

Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.

I didn't even know I was a feminist until I read it on the back of one of my own books.

The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.

Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can.

Marriage is a very difficult relationship for nearly everyone and I'm sure you shouldn't do it if you want a quiet little easy life.

guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine

She could see that to lose a sibling was hard: it could only seem unnatural:out of time, out of order, a vicious re-run of your own departure into nothingness.

Is there any soul without any struggle?

Our readers are curious, creative, and compassionate fairy punks who are citizens of the world.

Credulity as a character trait is encouraged in every child who grows up with religious training, which invariably insists on the virtue of blind faith and the sinfulness of doubting and questioning.

As the thoughts so the mind. If thoughts are good, mind is good. If thoughts are bad, the mind is called bad.

I don't plan to return. I have a lot of unresolved things to do.

I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful.

What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts.

...also took for granted that secret services were the only real measure of a nations political health, the only real expression of its subconscious.

The magical dust of Christmas glittered on the cheeks of humanity ever so briefly, reminding us of what is worth having and what we were intended to be.