Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.

Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history.

I think that in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion.

... home isn't always the place where you were born and bred. Home is the place where your everyday clothes are, and where somebody or something needs you.

Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth.

Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.

There's no sauce for play like work.