Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

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

Natalie Spenser was giving a dinner. She was not an easy hostess.

[When working on a book] I have an almost complete detachment from the world I live in, a sort of armor against distraction. I talk to people, move about, appear on the surface much as usual. But later on I have only a confused memory of what has happened during that period.

having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.

Politics is still the man's game. The women are allowed to do the chores, the dirty work, and now and then--but only occasionally--one is present at some secret conference or other. But it's not the rule. They can go out and get the vote, if they can and will; they can collect money, they can be grateful for being permitted to work. But that is all.

Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.