The more you learn, the less you fear.

If these are indeed the spirits of Englishmen and Englishwomen who have passed over into the next world, surely they would know how to form a proper queue?

The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life.

The spring of 1930 marks the end of a period of grave concern...American business is steadily coming back to a normal level of prosperity.

When you’re young you prefer the vulgar months, the fullness of the seasons. As you grow older you learn to like the in-between times, the months that can’t make up their minds. Perhaps it’s a way of admitting that things can’t ever bear the same certainty again.

Very few of my characters are based on people I've known. It is too constricting.

Irony - The modern mode: either the devil’s mark or the snorkel of sanity.