Depression Is The Most Extreme Form Of

As A Child, I Wanted Only Two Things - To Be Left Alone To Read My Library Books, And To Get Away From My Provincial Hometown And Go To London To Be A Writer. And I Always Knew That When I Got There, I Wanted To Make Loads Of Money.

The Truth Of The Matter Is, Beauty Is A Specific Thing, Rare And Fleeting. Some Of Us Have It In Our Teens, 20s And 30s And Then Lose It; Most Of Us Have It Not At All. And That's Perfectly Okay. But Lying To Yourself That You Have It When You Don't Seems To Me Simple-minded At Best And Psychotic At Worst.

But Just Think What A Boring, Bread-and-milk World This Would Be Without The Boastful.

I've Never Been Nostalgic, Personally Or Politically - If The Past Was So Great, How Come It's History?

I Am Firmly Of The Opinion That Women Who Make A Lot Of Effort To Hang Onto Their Looks In Middle Age (unless They Are Beauties, Entertainers Or Prostitutes) Are Rather Sad, As One Should Surely Have Something More Substantial To Recommend One By This Time, Such As Kindness Or Cleverness.