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

The duck swallows the worm, the fox kills the duck, the men shoot the fox, and the devil hunts the men.

The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you.

An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit.

A baby was like a revolution, Grigori thought: you could start one, but you could not control how it would turn out.

Culture clash is terrific drama.

After a certain point, most people, including editors, will tell you everything you do is great.