Nothing fails like failure

Our desire to conform is greater than our respect for objective facts.

I used to be a reasonably careless and adventurous person before I had children; now I am morbidly obsessed by seat-belts and constantly afraid that low-flying aircraft will drop on my children's school.

London, how could one ever be tired of it?

Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.

The women are always vixens or monsters. They can't just be normal people in the book.

If I knew what the meanings of my books were, I wouldn't have bothered to write them.