What she needs,' Tom said aloud 'is a husband.' Agnes said crisply, 'Well, she can't have mine.

What she needs,' Tom said aloud 'is a husband.' Agnes said crisply, 'Well, she can't have mine.

What news? There's nothing to tell. I'm a nun.

A very good editor is almost a collaborator.

Culture clash is terrific drama.

There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era.

I went and looked at one of these great cathedrals one day, and I was blown away by it. From there I became interested in how cathedrals were built, and from there I became interested in the society that built the medieval cathedral. It occurred to me at some point that the story of the building of a cathedral could be a great popular novel.