Only when you are secure enough not to fear immediate survival can you display creative intelligence in anything you do.

The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history.

I have this thing about friends and secrets. Sometimes when I meet a person I like, I tell them a secret they don't know me well enough to be told. It lets me judge their potential as a friend.

Anorexia taught me to love life and to realise that starving yourself to death is a bloody waste of time. It's awful and it hurts so many people around you. It's a terribly selfish thing to do.

We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.

Elvis' early music has drama because as he sang he was escaping limits.

They misunderstand us, they unwittingly belittle us, they do something that they think is nice that instead just makes us mad. And those are the good ones.

If it takes you 20 or 25 years to establish yourself in one field, you really ought to be careful not to stray too far.

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

I don't have a competitive bone in my body, so the last thing I want to do is be competing with people.

Class is more important than a game.

Part of being a writer is knowing when what you write is really bad.