Probably no purer incitement to hatred existed, Lydia had found, than being told of anyone or anything: you will love him, her or it. The spirit immediately rose up like a fanged cobra.

Really, I protest--what is left for the satirical mind to invent when reality so surpasses it?

A balance, I think, is needed, " Dr. Templeton said judiciously, "between the head and the heart: nothing easier to say: nothing harder to achieve.

The stupidest people suddenly become a little cleverer when we learn that they think well of us

I confess I found it somewhat insipid when I last went....it was all so prosy - so bonnety - so whisty and teacuppy - you see, the adjectives for it do not even exist, and I must invent them.

I sometimes think if I did not write I would be a madwoman. Now I am a sane woman with a lot of mad pages.

I pulled back and stared up into his eyes. "You're gettin' very deep on me."Alec's hands gripped my behind. "I'll be getting very deep in you if you keep looking at me like that

It is important how people take you.

You want to break the curse, I want to break the curse. We don't need to be nice. We need to be effective. Just help me figure it out, and I'll make you a rich woman.

The tide seldom shifts in favor of a selfish individual.

terror finally becomes almost bearable but never quite terror creeps like a cat crawls like a cat across my mind

Of course you should fight fire with fire. You should fight everything with fire.

A passion for any novel, and any character, can crystallise your ideas when you really need to be as open as possible as a performer.

Do not put off today's work until tomorrow, lest work accumulate and you achieve nothing.