when married people begin to talk about their rights, it means something has gone pretty far wrong between them.

Anger was both a disfiguring and a revealing passion.

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.

Husbands and wives quarrel a lot more than anyone thinks, and it's oftener about little things than big ones.

Nobody likes to be accused of a virtue.

My dear father always said that when everybody had a telephone nobody would have any manners, because there wouldn't be time for them. And of course he was perfectly right.

Money's a very serious thing - especially when you haven't got any.