Doris Lessing

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

Laughter is by definition healthy.

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.