We are all tempted, Mma. We are all tempted when it comes to cake.

As a writer, you have to realize that people want to like the characters, so you have to be careful to keep them involved.

The point about love, the essential point, was that we loved what we loved. We did not choose. We just loved.

International business, once allowed to stalk uncontrolled, killed the local, the small, the quirky.

Antonia was very conscious of the corrosive power of envy and felt that it was this emotion, more than any other, which lay behind human unhappiness. People did not realize how widespread envy was.

Who can't like pigs? They're wonderful creatures! I've always liked pigs.

I have always taken the view that one should never hold against a man anything he says after twelve o'clock at night or after a glass or two of anything.