My imagination and power are limitless. Nothing can stop me from achieving my dreams.

To be successful, keep looking tanned, live in an elegant building (even if you're in the cellar), be seen in smart restaurants (even if you only nurse one drink) and if you borrow, borrow big.

What do I miss? Second-hand bookshops where I can find things I had no idea I wanted. AbeBooks helps, but it doesn't have that smell.

The heart can only be broken / once, like a window.

I and me are always too deeply in conversation.

My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules.

Beware of any profession for which you must buy new clothes.

our sons and daughters are only passing through. ... If we are lucky, they always will consider our home their harbor, but they are headed out to the open sea, almost from the first.

I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it.

It’s quite easy to accidentally overhear people talking downstairs if you hold an upturned glass to the floorboards and accidentally put your ear to it.

Whatever happens, do not lose hold of the two main ropes of life - hope and faith.