I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all. marie antoinette

I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me.

I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell.

I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.

King Charles II liked women's company and well as making love to them.

That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.

I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.