When you've just made the most complete fool of yourself, you feel the need of a specially high horse to ride.

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.

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

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

When there is too much to say it is easier to say nothing at all.

It is always better to say too little than too much.

It's surprising how soon you can get used to having money. It's much easier than getting used to not having it.