The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
Children have to be educated but they have also to be left to educate...
On a soap happiness never lasts for very long!
Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads how to follow how to connect find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.
