I Look Placid, You See,

Of Course, I Should Have Done What Doctors Said And Walked For Miles Every Day And Not Eaten Great Amounts Of Butter. But Then, Life Is Life, And If We All Did What They Said We Should Do, It Would Be A Different World.

You Say To Yourself: 'what Could People, In All These Countries, Find In My Books?' And Yet I Think We're All The Same, Anywhere. Everybody Is A Hero Or A Dramatic Person In Their Own Story If You Just Know Where To Look.

The Great Thing About Getting Older Is That You Become More Mellow. Things Aren't As Black And White, And You Become Much More Tolerant. You Can See The Good In Things Much More Easily Rather Than Getting Enraged As You Used To Do When You Were Young.

She Put Her Head Down On The Table And Cried All The Tears That She Knew She Should Have Cried In The Past Year And A Half. But They Weren't Ready Then, They Were Now.

When My Sister Joan Arrived, I Asked If I Could Swap Her For A Rabbit. When I Think What A Marvellous Friend She's Been, I'm So Glad My Parents Didn't Take Me At My Word.