Nobody really lives in the present.

Many emotions go under the name of love, and almost any one of them will for a while divert the mind from the real, true, and perfect thing.

It's living - a broad spectrum of living - that teaches you how to live, not philosophy. Philosophy teaches you how to think.

I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel sorry for my psychopaths, because I do.

To be a classic, a novel should be original.

The worst has happened ... it's rather liberating.

There are only two periods in a woman's life when she hopes to be taken for older than she is, under sixteen and over ninety.