It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement.

A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.

Anyone who picks up a Compton-Burnett finds it very hard not to put it down.

There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.

My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.

We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.

As regards plot I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable and almost necessary, I have this extra grudge against life.

Real life seems to have no plots.

I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else?

Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.

Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth,' said his cousin. 'But we seem to have no other.

Margaret thought of all she knew for certain, that day would always follow night that love was never wasted nor was it lost.

Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment?

I think Judy Blume, Stephen King, and Dean Koontz are the three authors responsible for my being where I am today. I owe them a lot.

You might be a redneck if the tobacco chewers in your family aren't just men.

Approach the universe with Tao, And evil will have no power. Not that evil is not powerful, But its power will not be used to harm others.

Government that's not particularly caring and is hands off is not particularly inspiring.

We look for God as though he were not already here.

The British cook, for her iniquities, is a foolish woman who should be turned into a pillar of salt which she never knows how to use.

The increased rate of brain disease in the NFL population is caused by the way the game is played within the rules.

History causes the military problem to become the essence of the political problem.