There's one thing I've always known: You can let people suspect anything else about you, but you must never let them suspect you of knowing what you're doing.

There's an old press-agents' slogan that's good advice: Don't read your publicity - weigh it.

there are only two ways to make a lot [of money] while you're young: One is to entertain the public; and the other is to cheat it.

the end of anything is a relief. In every relationship, even the most valuable, there are certain unpleasant tensions - and the ending of it snaps those taut inner wires.

Marygreen did not change in sixteen years. It had changed little enough in the past two years.

War makes strangers bedfellows.

... maybe that's all anyone who writes or paints or sculpts is doing anyway -- excusing themselves for refusing to live like other people or be like them.