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The day is breaking someone else's heart.

Freedom to be oneself is all very well; the greater freedom is not to be oneself.

Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays.

Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication.

I'd like to think the scientists need us - but do they? Did Newton need Blake?

The simplest science book is over my head.

In life, there are no perfect affections.

But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own voice.