Compulsion is the death of friendship.
There are some writers who wrote too much. There are others who wrote enough. There are yet others who wrote nothing like enough to satisfy their admirers, and Jane Austen is certainly one of these.
There are some people who cannot get onto a train without imagining that they are about to voyage into the significant unknown; as though the notion of movement were inseparably connected with the notion of discovery, as though each displacement of the body were a displacement of the soul.
I've always thought that very few people grow old as admirably as academics. At least books never let them down.
I need words and print. . . I need print like an addict. I could live without it, perhaps. But I hope I never have to try.
I used to be a reasonably careless and adventurous person before I had children; now I am morbidly obsessed by seat-belts and constantly afraid that low-flying aircraft will drop on my children's school.
London, how could one ever be tired of it?
It's one thing to be this 'tough chick,' but you also have to be likeable.
Country is based on folk music, which has been around for centuries—” “So has the plague.
The wardrobe is always the last piece of the puzzle. When you step into the clothing, that's the final step to figuring out that character.
Throwing Ronald Reagan out of office at the height of his popularity, with inflation and interest rates down, the economy moving and the country at peace, would have required God on the ticket and She was not available!