My books and other works are my legacy, and it's a great comfort to know that mine is a legacy of pleasure for other people.

It's no fun to be a bluestocking in a family of jockstraps.

Belief doesn't rest on proof or existence...it rests on faith...without faith there is nothing.

My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow

Twelve thousand miles of it, to the other side of the world. And whether they came home again or not, they would belong neither here, nor there, for they would have lived on two continents and sampled two different ways of life.

There was some justice in his pain

There are no ambitions noble enough to justify breaking someone's heart.