...how Much Needless Despair Has Been Caused

Nobody Dies From Lack Of Sex. It's Lack Of Love We Die From.

That Is What You Have To Do Before You Kill, I Thought. You Have To Create An It, Where None Was Before.

Optimism Means Better Than Reality; Pessimism Means Worse Than Reality. I'm A Realist.

Because I Am A Mother, I Am Capable Of Being Shocked: As I Never Was When I Was Not One.

Books Are Frozen Voices, In The Same Way That Musical Scores Are Frozen Music. The Score Is A Way Of Transmitting The Music To Someone Who Can Play It, Releasing It Into The Air Where It Can Once More Be Heard. And The Black Alphabet Marks On The Page Represent Words That Were Once Spoken, If Only In The Writer's Head. They Lie There Inert Until A Reader Comes Along And Transforms The Letters Into Living Sounds. The Reader Is The Musician Of The Book: Each Reader May Read The Same Text, Just As Each Violinist Plays The Same Piece, But Each Interpretation Is Different.