Your own gown is most delicately suitable, both to the occasion and to yourself,' to be translated: Your gown is insipid and entirely forgettable. If you wear it on every other occasion this entire season, no one will notice or care.

Americans sometimes say to me that they have no class system themselves. All human beings have class systems. It can be based on a different thing in a different country, but the thing about breeding is, you can't buy it. You can't buy class.

People only tell lies when the truth is disagreeable to them, or frightens them, or to cover sin.

I wonder how often in the past I may have missed the good in people because I pre-judged, based on the differences?

A good library can provide the furniture of our minds and the threads from which we weave our dreams.

I did a complete rewrite of 650 pages in two weeks.

Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in advance. A lot of people have given their time and their skill, and a good deal of wit, and Anchorage has made us extraordinarily welcome.