Every writer knows the terror of an unexpected success. How to carry on? How to repeat it?

The only way to make a husband over according to one's ideas ... would be to adopt him at an early age, say four.

my family, although it keeps its hair, turns gray early - a business asset but a social handicap.

Conflict is the very essence of life.

Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.

To the bottle! In infancy, the milk bottle; in our prime, the wine bottle; in our dotage, the pill bottle.

Every crucial experience can be regarded either as a setback, or the start of a wonderful new adventure, it depends on your perspective!