In hospitals there is no time off for good behavior.

The truth of anything at all doesn't lie in someone's account of it. It lies in all the small facts of the time. An advertisement in a paper, the sale of a house, the price of a ring.

Horse sense is the instinct that keeps horses from betting on men.

One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn't, of course. It's a small niggling thing.

Nothing great ever came out of common sense.

Most people's first books are their best anyways. It's the one they wanted most to write.

It was pleasant to talk shop again; to use that elliptical, allusive speech that one uses only with another of one's trade.

A man may own a ship, but unless he is captain of a crew he goes where the ship goes.

Weak people can be very stubborn.

The trouble with you, dear, is that you think an angel of the Lord as a creature with wings, whereas he is probably a scruffy little man with a bowler hat.

You can't have a tin can tied to your tail and go through life pretending it isn't there.

Once upon a time, this idea of having a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to be today.

I happen to be really a romantic.

I think it's really important to treat yourself with respect because sometimes people can get down on themselves

You know, my basic theory about kids: they are monsters in children ziploc suits, which they discard when they go to school each day.

Success is the study of the obvious. Everyone should take Obvious 1 and Obvious 2 in school.

The - writing is a kind of act of aggression, and a person who is not aggressive in his normal, may I say, intercourse with humanity might well be an aggressive writer.

I wear a lot of black, knitwear, skinny jeans and very high heels. My mum used to work for a fashion designer making knitwear, so she knits me lots of chunky scarves, hats and gloves, which I love.

Don't waste time. If you love someone tell them because sooner or later someone else is going to.

I made all their videos, apart from the last two, so if you ever see an Abba video on TV then it’s my stuff.

Women aren't the problem but the solution. The plight of girls is no more a tragedy than an opportunity.