... the things that happened in your body were never as bad as the things that happened in your mind.

A good many established writers seem to have the feeling that some day they are going to be found out, revealed as frauds.

Take things as they come. Take things as they are. What does it matter? There's one end to everything.

There is and always has been for me a peculiar need to write. This is very different from wanting to be a writer. To be a writer always seemed something so far removed from my talents and abilities and imaginings that it didn't afflict me at all as a notion when I was young. But I was always conscious that I wanted to write.

I do not approve of children being beaten. It is always a confession of failure.

Love and a cold cannot be hid. It is, I believe, a Spanish proverb.

There is a country proverb which says, 'If you don't trouble trouble - trouble won't trouble you.