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.

It's easy to get a reputation for wisdom. It's only necessary to live long, speak little and do less.

I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.

We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life.

I find it extraordinary that a straightforward if inelegant device for ensuring the survival of the species should involve human beings in such emotional turmoil. Does sex have to be taken so seriously?

Authors always take rejection badly. They equate it with infanticide.

we can forgive anything as long as it isn't done to us.