Man seems not so much wicked as frail, unable to face pain, trouble and growing old. A good woman knows that nature is her enemy. Look at what it does to her.

Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually

Ambition will, and should, always outstrip achievement.

Of course you have to believe in destiny; that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion.

Writers were never meant to be professionals. Writing is not a profession, it is an activity, an essentially amateur occupation. It is what you do when you are not living.

If I am a prolific writer and turn my hand, with what seems to some as indecent haste, from novels to screenplays to stage and radio plays, it is because there is so much to be said, so few of us to say it, and time runs out.

Food is the supremest of pleasures.