Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself.

I continued to do arithmetic with my father, passing proudly through fractions to decimals. I eventually arrived at the point where so many cows ate so much grass, and tanks filled with water in so many hours. I found it quite enthralling.

I know nothing about pistols and revolvers, which is why I usually kill off my characters with a blunt instrument or better with poisons. Besides, poisons are neat and clean and really exciting... I do not think I could look a really ghastly mangled body in the face. It is the means that I am interested in. I do not usually describe the end, which is often a corpse.

Men don't understand how their mannerisms can get on women's nerves so that you feel you just have to snap.

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.

There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash.

If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it - often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect.