I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant.

How long is a girl a child? She is a child, and then one morning you wake up she's a woman, and a dozen different people of whom you recognize none.

When feeding time comes around, there is nothing a hawk likes better than a nice, fat, peaceful dove.

A television picture or a movie might be lost forever, but your book is waiting.

violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights, then men are really in trouble.

What a man wants to do he generally can do, if he wants to badly enough.

A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than their own. The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.