When emotion supersedes reason ... gullibility must follow.

I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.

Sometimes the characters develop almost without your knowing it. You find them doing things you hadn't planned on, and then I have to go back to page 42 and fix things. I'm not recommending it as a way to write. It's very sloppy, but it works for me.

Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.

The combination of physical strength and moral sincerity combined with tenderness of heart is exactly what is wanted in a husband.--Ameila Peabody

a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.

The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal - or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.