Indifference and pride look very much alike, and he probably thought I was proud.

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

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

American bankers believe in the personal touch; the teller conveys a sense that he happens to be there accidentally and he is overjoyed at the lucky chance of the encounter.

I've caught belief like a disease. I've fallen into belief like I fell in love.

Melodrama is one of my working tools and it enables me to obtain effects that would be unobtainable otherwise; on the other hand I am not deliberately melodramatic; don't get too annoyed if I say that I write in the way that I do because I am what I am.

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.