The suspense in a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist himself, who is intensely curious too about what will happen to the hero.

it's easier to forgive your enemies than to forgive your friends.

Making love, we are all more alike than we are when we are talking or acting.

To be disesteemed by people you don't have much respect for is not the worst fate.

Every word she writes is a lie, including "and" and "the."

What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake.

The horror of Gandhi's murder lies not in the political motives behind it or in its consequences for Indian policy or for the future of non-violence; the horror lies simply in the fact that any man could look into the face of this extraordinary person and deliberately pull a trigger.