Cats, as you know, are quite impervious to threats.

Writers are too neurotic to ever be happy.

When you're a writer, the question people always ask you is, "Where do you get your ideas?" Writers hate this question. It's like asking Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen, "Where do you get your leeches?" You don't get ideas. Ideas get you.

One has not lived until one has carried a sixty-pound dog down a sweeping flight of stairs at half-past V in the morning.

It is my belief that everything you need to know about the world can be learned in a church choir.

Barbie's one of those fads whose popularity makes you lose all faith in the human race.

I learned everything I know about plot from Dame Agatha (Christie).