They think my mother's ashes are marijuana.

I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.

There are times when a lover longs to be also a father and a brother: he is jealous of the years he hasn't shared.

God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution.

One never knows enough about characters in real life to put them into novels. One gets started and then, suddenly, one can not remember what toothpaste they use; what are their views on interior decoration, and one is stuck utterly. No, major characters emerge; minor ones may be photographed.

It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.

The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn.