People ... have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work.

For years they have been using the role of 'sex object' as a cover while they spied out the land.

Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.

The more I like a book, the more reluctant I am to turn the page. Lovers, even book lovers, tend to cling. No one-night stands or "reads" for them.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

The moment a book is lent I begin to miss it.

When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.