It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.

If you love, you will suffer, and if you do not love, you do not know the meaning of a Christian life.

It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.

The lure of the past came up to grab me. To see a dagger slowly appearing, with its gold glint, through the sand was romantic. The carefulness of lifting pots and objects from the soil filled me with a longing to be an archaeologist myself.

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

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

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.