I like to do one week on, and one week off. She works when she feels like it, and does not often feel like doing anything before six in the evening. Yet an enormous amount of work gets done. That's my position. I wouldn't bother if I didn't have to.
Evil is the absence of good.
That's not me, by the way. It's Thomas Aquinas. She was spending the weekend in London, poised in flight between Italy and New York, traveling with Penelope Jardine, painter and sculptor, who not only types her books but is the writer's touchstone and sounding-board. Home was originally Edinburgh, where her grown-up son Robin lives. Her mother was English.