Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby - awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.

Like most writers, I look back on all of my finished works with utter regret, and the trouble with writing a series of novels is that you have to go back and read them, and make sure that you haven't forgotten anything you've created, and then when you do that, you're faced with your own mistakes on every trick, from the wrong word in places to entirely the wrong incident.

I wrote a comedy, which hopefully [Rick director] Curtiss Clayton will bring to the screen, that I thought was the antithesis of all my work. I thought it was light and sunshiny, and Mr. Clayton reminded me that it is the story of a woman kidnapped and forced to do things against her will, which is not what most people think of as light and sunshiny.

This is an absurd moral, for you and I both know that sometimes not only is it good to lie, it is necessary to lie.

You would run much slower if you were dragging something behind you, like a knapsack or a sheriff.

It is not very polite to interrupt a person, of course, but sometimes if the person is very unpleasant you can hardly stop yourself.

There are some who go through life with a shadow hanging over them, particularly if they live in a building which has long wide awnings.