"Praying is another way of singing. You plant in the tree the soul of lemons. You plant in the gardens the spirit of r…"

"I know the colour rose, and it is lovely, But not when it ripens in a tumour."

"And silence matched the silence under snow."

"Are all men in disguise except those crying?"

"that he cares for nothing except what might commend itself to a virtuoso Pagan, and thinks only as men thought before…"

"... she saw herself to be: a demystifier, a critical observer of social processes and systems, an outsider who could …"

"cultivated the role of and/or witch, and — in the (1979) — rewrote the with pistol-toting Mother riding to the rescue…"

"My grandfather was the subject of my best stories. ... He behaved fantastically badly. ... My grandfather was a pries…"

"Grandfather's skirts would flop in the wind along the path and I would hang on. He often found things to do in the , …"

"... never frequent enough to explain the amount of wine he got through ... Eventually the Church stopped his supply a…"