Parents have too little respect for their children, just as the children have too much for the parents.

I never agree with the compliments paid to it. It is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary.

There is danger in courage. Cowardice is a power for good. We hardly know what it prevents.

Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes.

At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.

Civilized life exacts its toll.

Well, of course, people are only human... But it really does not seem much for them to be.