I always take abroad with me one really good soft pillow--to me it makes all the difference between comfort and misery.

It had come about ex­act­ly in the way things hap­pened in books.

fiction is founded on truth....unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them.

I am all that there is of the most real.

marriage is an extraordinary thing - and I doubt if any outsider - even a child of the marriage - has the right to judge.

Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations.

There are some people who don't conform to the signals. An ordinary well-regulated locomotive slows down or pulls up when it sees the red light hoisted against it. Perhaps I was born color blind. When I see the red signal -- I can't help forging ahead. And in the end, you know, that spells disaster.