If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

"Books are the mirrors that reflect our fears."

The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.

People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.