When I feel that I'm going to write a detective story, I buy a five pound box of chocolates and a ream of paper. When the candy is all gone and the paper all used up, I know that the book is long enough.

Insistent advice may develop into interference, and interference, someone has said, is the hind hoof of the devil.

... as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the ideal library is in the wish of its maker.

Actions lie louder than words.

Every dogma must have its day.

Happiness is the ability to recognize it.

I'm just the same age I've always been.