There are questions that you don't ask because you're afraid of the answers to them.

I, myself, was always recognized . . . as the “slow one” in the family. It was quite true, and I knew it and accepted it. Writing and spelling were always terribly difficult for me. My letters were without originality. I was . . . an extraordinarily bad speller and have remained so until this day.

Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.

She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.

Bad temper is its own safety valve. He who can bark does not bite.

Everybody always knows something," said Adam, "even if it's something they don't know they know.

Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride.