I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures.

duty, the most indecent of all obsessions, was only another name for love.

I think explicit love scenes are a turn off unless it's the kind you read with one hand.

Oh, that feels good! I don't know who invented ties and then insisted a man was only properly dressed when he wore one, but if I ever meet him, I'll strangle him with his own invention

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

Love and hate are cruel, only liking is kind

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.