Cary Grant never won an Oscar, primarily, I suspect, because he made everything look so effortless. Why reward someone for having fun, for being charming?

There are a great many sins in this world, none of them original.

It's possible to overlook character flaws of in-laws for the simple reason that you feel neither responsible for them nor genetically implicated.

People sometimes get in the habit of being loyal to a mistake.

People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.

I'll tell you one thing, though. It's a terrible thing to be a disappointment to a good woman.

I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about.