My skin is so thin that the innocent words of others burn holes right through me.

Trust in the person's promise who dares to refuse what they fear they cannot perform.

They say the Universe started with a big bang. I hope everybody stood well back.

Very few people who met my adoptive mother in the last 20 years of her life could abide her, while many people who have seen my play find her fascinating. Heavens, what have I done?!

Paper Covers Rock is dazzling in its intensity and intelligence, spell-binding in its terrible beauty.

Blackberry winter, the time when the hoarforst lies on the blackberry blossoms; without this frost the berries will not set. It is the forerunner of a rich harvest.

As the member of a firefighter family myself, supporting the widowed families of rescue workers is an important, personal cause of mine.

That's what librarians do. They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if you don’t even know where to begin to look.

We are always the most violent against those whom we have injured.

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

If love is blind, patriotism has lost all five senses.