“My environment reflects the life I've led, the places I've visited and the people I've loved.”

“A lot of people measure a man by what he's got. I've decided to measure myself by what I can give up.”

“Sometimes I'll spend an hour writing a tiny email. I work on it until I've created the illusion that I've dashed it off in three minutes. If I make a typo, I let it stand. Sometimes in fact I correct the typo without thinking, and then I back up and retype the typo so that it'll look more casual. I don't know why.”

“I've cared for heaps of people, but not to marry them' she said. 'I suppose I'm too fastidious. all my life I've wanted somebody I could look up to, somebody great and big and splendid. Most men are so small.''What d;you mean by splendid?' Hewet asked. 'People are-nothing more.”

“You'll see me differently in the morning, after I've fucked some sense into you.”

“There's no doubt in my mind that I've found out how to begin at this age to say sth in my own voice and that interests me so that I can go ahead without any : ) praise”

“Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read and what I haven't read.”