Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.

There's also the idea in this country [USA], it's not wholly new, but it's new in its kind of purity, in that you have to be really smart to be really rich. I always say to people, the reason people believe this is a) they've never met a really smart person, and b) they've never met a really rich person. I have met both, and I cannot see the crossover. You do not have to be a genius to get rich. You have to be ruthless to get rich.

Children are much less annoying [than adults] and they never start trends.

There is nothing more mine than my writing, nothing I'm more proprietary about.

Why not have your first baby at sixty, when your husband is already dead and your career is over? Then you can really devote yourself to it.

I've never had the experience of being edited and never will.

Writing pornography is deadly, nothing duller. I mean a toll-taker has a more exciting life than a pornographer.