I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money.

I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.

We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real.

It is not so much true that the world loves a lover as that the lover loves all the world.

The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.

To say that Agatha Christie’s characters are cardboard cut-outs is an insult to cardboard cut-outs.

I get a lot of letters from people. They say "I want to be a writer. What should I do?" I tell them to stop writing to me and to get on with it.

I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.

Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

The knives of jealousy are honed on details.

Many emotions go under the name of love, and almost any one of them will for a while divert the mind from the real, true, and perfect thing.

The blind can see love, the deaf can hear love, the mute can express love, and the disabled can carry love.

What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.

For, know that each soul constantly meets its own self. No problem may be run away from. Meet it now!

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

It's important to teach your kids the value of being active by setting a good example.

I want to write about grown-up things.

I believe a constitution can permit the co-existence of several cultures and ethnic groups with a single state.

The older I get, the more I become an apple pie, sparkling cider kind of guy.

Norman Mailer decocts matters of the first philosophical magnitude from an examination of his own ordure, and I am not talking about his books.