I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame.

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

I think a lot of developments start with the desire of the developer to get what he really wants so that he can use it. It's not just the technical fascination or the business opportunity.

Winter is nature's way of saying, 'Up yours.'

Beliefs that are good promote your potential and enhance your unique special qualities.

Soccer is easy if you work hard at it.

The work of a mother is hard, too often unheralded work. Please know that it is worth it then, now, and forever.

Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth.

As soon as you have someone who's providing stuff to react to, especially working with a baby, it's great.

If Trump is going to govern in a fascist way, then we need to make America ungovernable.

Mullets are still going strong in the south and places like St Louis or the Carolinas.

I was one of those people who was always rather frightened of women politicians.