I can't imagine why everybody is always so keen for authors to talk about writing. I should have thought it was an author's business to write, not talk.

It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.

too much safety is abhorrent to the nature of a human being.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Downstairs in the lounge, by the third pillar from the left, there sits an old lady with a sweet, placid, spinsterish face and a mind that has plumbed the depths of human iniquity and taken it all as in the day's work....where crime is concerned, she's the goods.

Assumptions are dangerous things.

I've a theory that one can always get anything one wants if one will pay the price. And do you know what the price is, nine times out of ten? Compromise.