There are doubtless certain unworldly people who are indifferent to money. I myself have never met one.

Jealousy, you know, is usually not an affair of causes. It is much more-how shall I say?-fundamental than that. Based on the knowledge that one's love is not returned. And so one goes on waiting, watching, expecting...that the loved one will turn to someone else.

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.

I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty---to one's friends and one's family and one's caste.

You can only really get under anybody's skin if you are married to them.

The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

The amount of missing girls I've had to trace and their family and their friends always say the same thing. 'She was a bright and affectionate disposition and had no men friends'. That's never true. It's unnatural. Girls ought to have men friends. If not, then there's something wrong about them.