Marriage is a very difficult relationship for nearly everyone and I'm sure you shouldn't do it if you want a quiet little easy life..

One sort of believes in recycling. But one believes in it as a kind of palliative to the gods..

Every time you open your wardrobe, you look at your clothes and you wonder what you are going to wear. What you are really saying is 'Who am I going ….

If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens..

The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right..

Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can..

Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens..

A 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed..

Truly Alice, books are wonderful things; to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be safe when you close the book….

How has anyone ever understood anyone, except through love, which is wordless?.

People hear what they want and expect to hear, not what is said..

I am not cynical. I am just old. I know what is going to happen next..

If I am a prolific writer and turn my hand, with what seems to some as indecent haste, from novels to screenplays to stage and radio plays, it is bec….

I didn't even know I was a feminist until I read it on the back of one of my own books..

Never defend yourself; agree with your critics, it takes the wind out of their sails..

Preserve your peace of mind. There is not much time; all things end in death. Do not lament the past too much, or fear the future too acutely, ot was….

I was seduced by secrets, which are to true love as artificial sweetener is to sugar, calorie-free but in the long run carcinogenic, not the real thi….

Style is what's there when you look at someone's writing and you know that they wrote it and nobody else did..

One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits..

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away..

Marriage is what happens when one at least of the partners doesn't want the other to get away..