A Good Library Can Provide The Furniture

The Mountains Are So Beautiful They Make Me Ache Inside Because The Moment I Look Away I Know I Shall Need To See Them Again. And I Cannot Spend The Rest Of My Life Standing On The Spot Starting At Shifting Sunlight And Mist And Shadows Across The Sea.

I Was Born In London, England, In 1938, A Few Months Before The War, And Spent The First Years Of My Life There, Although I Was Evacuated A Couple Of Times For Short Periods. My Schooling Was Very Interrupted, Both By Frequent Moves And By Ill Health.

I Believe In An Individual Soul Which Travels Through Eternity. This Life Is Far From All There Is--in Fact, It Is A Minute Part, Simply An Antechamber, A Deciding Place Where We Choose The Light From The Dark, Where We Come To Know What We Truly Value.

We Believe World Peace Is Inevitable.

I Think It's A Terrible Thing To Write And Not Enjoy It. It's A Sad Thing. But Of Course A Lot Of People Do Work Because They Need To Eat. And We All Need To Eat, But That's Not The Only Reason To Work. You Couldn't Have Paid Me Not To Write.