“The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her.”

“Good taste is death. Vulgarity is life.”

“My garden in England is full of eating-out places, for heat waves, warm September evenings, or lunch on a frosty Christmas morning.”

“Good taste is death vulgarity is life. ”

“I absolutely adore cows. They're the most fascinating, gentle and beautiful animals. Their eyes are so amazing. I have ten that live on the land around my house. I love to talk to them. There are f...”

“Risk it; go for it. Life always gives you another chance, another go at it. It's very important to take enormous risks.”

“There's a strength in that look, a wilfulness; one would almost call it defiance except that it is so good-humoured. It is the look a woman would wear - would have worn - if she asked a man, a stra...”

“If its reality you want, I suggest you look out the window.”

“Reality is how you look at it”

“Pain rises. From the heart to the head pain rises.”

“This was the start of a period that blurs as I try to recall it. Incidents seem to cascade and merge. Events become feelings, fellings become events. Head and heart are contrary historians.”

“The head has no answers, and the heart has no questions, Jack would say."Quoting his teacher and good friend Jack Kakakaway”

“All of them would understand, as he did now, that he had crossed a line in himself, he had left their world behind, the decent world of tea parties and suburban witticisms.”