To have meaningful work is a tremendous happiness.

Why can't peace be a single overriding common purpose: why do we wait for a crisis to pull us together? Let's pull together for peace.

Pain isn't always the enemy.

The price of dishonesty is self-destruction.

I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed.

I hate the telephone. I think the lowest circle of hell is reserved for Alexander Graham Bell.

Novels, like human beings, usually have their beginnings in the dark.