In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.

[My father and his friends] believed in equality for women without troubling to acquire the basic domestic skills which would have made that equality possible.

The modern holy trinity is money, sex and celebrity.

We are often more merciful to our animals than we are to each other.

People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault, a momentary death?

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

There is no point in regretting any part of the past. The past can't now be altered, the future has yet to be lived, and consciously to experience every moment of the present is the only way to gain at least the illusion of immortality.