Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas - an idea a page.

I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.

It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance?

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.

I never meant to marry. In my opinion, a woman born in the last half of the nineteenth century of the Christian era suffered from enough disadvantages without willfully embracing another.

That's maturity-when you realize that you've finally arrived at a state of ignorance as profound as your parents.