Lee explained to her that art for art’s sake is an upper-class aesthetic. To create art divorced from any purpose, you can’t be living a life driven by need and desire.

When the past is hard to explain, it’s best to concentrate on the future.

He informed Byrdie that his social engineering ambitions betrayed all the delusions of grandeur that you might expect from the son of a poet.

The library, like the thrift shop, specialised in the leavings of the elderly dead.

Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are

I’m an idiot for trying to avoid these feelings because they have caused me pain in the past.

That was the nature of presents. You kept them in the giver's stead. They were a small part of that person to keep.

Showing up is eighty percent of life.

My favorite book is always the one I'm working on at the moment

Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things.

I want to drive! I love to drive! I drive at home in Barbados.

The elegance and the quality - the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I base everything on that. It doesn't make any difference to me.

I'm somebody who gets a lot of inspiration from dreams.

The laws of history tell us that only when the old is gone can the new take its place.