I always think it's silly when people talk about works of culture taking risks. Because there's not any risk involved.

So she loved him. She just did immediately and again often and clearly naturally and soundly and obviously and many others.

Every problem has a solution. Sometimes it just takes a long time to find the solution - even if it's right in front of your nose.

The last time I saw you I was trying to throw thumbtacks into your cradle!

Stretched out in front of me was my time as an adult, and then a skeleton, and then nothing except perhaps a few books on a few shelves.

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.

The right hand doesn’t know what the left is doing” is a phrase that refers to times when people ought to know, but don’t know, about something that is happening very close to them. For instance, you ought to know about the man who watches you when you sleep.