When passion is mutual, there is always the danger of the fire burning to ashes.

The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour

Being constantly with children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn't bear to throw them out, but they gave her blisters.

Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

It is the generation of the unemphatic. Steal, kill, lie, fornicate, but beware of indulging with conviction.

The prize I value most was given to me 60 years ago. I was named the girl with the cleanest fingernails.

What we remember is probably fiction anyway.

Women are programmed to love completely, and men are programmed to spread it around. We are fools to think it's any different.

There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky.

It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner.

You don’t get lucky without preparation, and there’s no sense in being prepared if you’re not open to the possibility of a glorious accident.

I started a MySpace teen lit discussion group and invited people to join.

Come away; poverty's catching.

The mind is afraid of its own dissolution. Life always seeks life.

You could adjust the punishment to fit the infraction. Even a small fine would be enough to bring an errant government to heel.

My daddy, he was somewhere between God and John Wayne.

I never could make out what those damned dots meant.

I maintain a balanced view of the world, but that balance is always in my favour.

Either I've invented a whole new logic or, ahem, I'm not playing with a full deck.

Our Christian identity is belonging to a people: the Church. Without the Church we are not Christians.