If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.

I don't think I'm an unkind person, I don't think my books are unkind, and I don't think my readers are unkind.

You are my whole existence and I will love you until my last breath.

I think I have a very detailed sense of observation. I am interested in the details of people's lives and what information these details give.

My own belief is that most people are trying to do their best. It doesn't mean they have no nasty side, or that they don't have a bad temper, or that they have never done anything they feel ashamed of. But fiction operates on people waking up trying to be horrible, and I don't think most people are trying to be horrible.

I mean the truth is, I've always been interested in the whole setup of the old world.

You never know people, do you? You can work with 'em for twenty years; you don't know 'em at all.