“If there is a heaven, Jane Austen is sitting in a small room with Mother Teresa and Princess Diana, listening to Duran Duran, forever. If there's a hell, she's standing.”

“The real hell of Hell is that it is forever.' Sula said that. She said doing anything forever and ever was hell.”

“I blame that cow Mother Teresa”

“Kind? This is DisCo, not Mother Teresa's home.”

“I felt that the murderer was in the room. Sitting with us — listening. one of us”

“Presently they saw their Mother coming out of the drawing-room with a visitor following her. Jane and Michael could see that the newcomer had shiny black hair — "Rather like a wooden Dutch doll," whispered Jane. And that she was thin, with large feet and hands, and small, rather peering blue-eyes.
"You'll find that they are very nice children," Mrs. Banks was saying.
Michael's elbow gave a sharp dig at Jane's ribs.
"And that they give no trouble at all," continued Mrs. Banks uncertainly, as if she herself didn't really believe what she was saying. They heard the visitor sniff as though she didn't either.
"Now, about reference —" Mrs. Banks went on.
"Oh, I make it a rule never to give references," said the other firmly.”

“Many writers do little else but sit in small rooms recalling the real world.”

“She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still”

“Mother Teresa was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction.”

“My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold and anything else is just a waste of time.”