Electronic books are a bad thing because they cannot be accumulated on shelves to remind you of your past, to impress your neighbors and colleagues, and to help prevent divorces thanks to the sheer bother of arguing over who owns what.

I'm starved for love. Not ordinary love but real love. The love that's like music or something.

Rid the mind of knowledge when looking for pleasure. Or start thinking and find a lot of pain.

You know, there must be happiness somewhere, when a lawyer dies.

Revenge is what I want. Nothing but pure unadulterated revenge. But my mother brought me up to be a lady.

I remember one letter from a girl in a midwestern town who read one of my books and thought she had discovered it- that no one had ever read it or knew about it. Then one day in her local library she found cards for one or two of my other books. They were full of names- the books were borrowed all the time. She resented this a bit and then walked around the town looking in everybody's face and wondering if they were the ones who were reading my books. That is someone I write for.

Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.