People like you should be stopped, Mr. Woodrow,' she mused aloud, with a puzzled shake of her wise head. 'You think you're solving the world's problems but actually you're the problem.

I move my lips when I read -- I'm painfully slow -- so I like really good English.

I used to think it was clever to confuse comedy with tragedy. Now I wish I could distinguish them.

Each my book feels like my last book. And then I think, like a dedicated alcoholic, that one more won't do me any harm.

I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.

The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how our messages will be received.

A dead man is the worst enemy alive, I thought. You can't alter his power over you. You can't alter what you love or owe. And it's too late to ask him for his absolution. He has beaten you all ways.