“Astrologers should look at things in new ways; try out new ideas, hold on to what is workable (and provable); but let go of what is not.”

“Wartime fears and hardship had faded, We looked to the future with hope: Expectations rose high as new flats in the sky, And “We’d never had it so good!”

“We are all children of the age into which we are born.”

“Across the years an anguished call Drifts with the tide, "They've killed my boy!" - by thousands multiply.”

“Personally, I find miracles and magic very hard to believe in. Both to me are simply something that as yet we cannot comprehend but which will be explained logically in time.”

“There's always the possibility that you're going to come across a record that transforms your life. And it happens weekly. It's like a leaf on the stream. There are little currents and eddies and sticks lying in the water that nudge you in a slightly different direction. And then you break loose and carry on down the current. There's nothing that actually stops you and lifts you out of the water and puts you on the bank but there are diversions and distractions and alarums and excursions which is what makes life interesting really. It's fantastic.”

“The whole bathhouse had been given over to laundry, which never struck Steffie as a good idea, what with who knows who having been in there after having been who knows where and having been in he didn't want to think what.”