A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.

We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.

What was so terrible about grief was not grief itself, but that one got over it.

Write what you need to write, not what is currently popular or what you think will sell.

Perfect love may cast our fear, but fear is remarkably potent in casting out love.

If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no area of human experience are human beings more convinced that something better can be had only if they persevere.

Publishers don't nurse you; they buy and sell you.