The laissez-faire attitude to science education has resulted in a disaster exemplified by the fact that more young people are opting for media studies than physics.

People wonder when you're allowed to call yourself a writer. I think maybe the answer is when you recognize that is work." - Nina MacLaughlin, 'With Compliments

Happiness is a fortress.

If you are as happy my dear sir on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home you are the happiest man in this country.

Knowing what I know now, any photographer worth his salt could make some beautiful things with pinhole cameras.

I miss the noise in New York: the sound of taxis and that constant buzz the city has.

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.

I've accomplished a lot, but I still have more dreams that I want to achieve.

I think that setting a novel in a small town taps into a sense of nostalgia among readers. People tend to believe life is different in small towns, and frankly, it is different.

The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.