Only the united beat of sex and heart can create ecstasy.

I believe that an author who cannot control her characters is, like a mother who cannot control her children, not really fit to look after them.

the old fellow seemed to spot deceit as if it reeked like a goat.

I write every paragraph four times - once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have left out, once to take out anything that seems unnecessary, and once to make the whole thing sound as if I had only just thought of it.

the relationship between the two men was something of a miracle in itself. It was a cordiality based, apparently, on complete non-comprehension cemented by a deep mutual respect for the utterly unknown. No two men saw less eye to eye and the result was unexpected harmony, as if a dog and a fish had mysteriously become friends and were proud each of the other's remarkable dissimilarity to himself.

It's pitch, sex is. Once you touch it, it clings to you.

I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it