A personal injustice is stronger motivation than any instinct for philanthropy.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason that they haven't done what I do. Most book reviewers haven't written 11 novels. Many of them haven't written one.

To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.

Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents' own rule.

I have a very poor record at multiple choice questions.

I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.