Confession Ran In The Family.

We Live In A Fantasy World, A World Of Illusion. The Great Task In Life Is To Find Reality.

The Theatre Is A Tragic Place, Full Of Endings And Partings And Heartbreak.

Nothing Is More Beautifully And Acceptably Self-assertive Than Good Singing.

I Think Being A Woman Is Like Being Irish. Everyone Says You're Important And Nice, But You Take Second Place All The Same.

I Think The Novel Is Essentially A Comic Form (tragedy Is For The Theatre), Not Meaning By That Full Of Jokes, But That It Is About The Absurd Detail Of Human Life, The Way In Which One Cannot Fully Understand What Is Happening. Life Is Muddle And Jumble And Ends Inconclusively, And When This Is Presented With Great Comic Art The Sorrows Of Human Life Can Be Truthfully Conveyed; One Is Moved By The Spectacle, And Feels That Something Truthful Has Been Told In A Magic Way.