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.

I can think of nothing more soul destroying in life than to persist in trying to do a thing you want desperately to do well, and to know that you are at the best second rate.

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

I'm not often bored,' I assured her. "Life's not long enough for that.

Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.

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

At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.