there must be a routine to life, a framework to hang life on. Routines were what kept you sane, gave you something to do at this moment and at that, definite places to go, positive things to do. Abandon it and that way madness lies.

Ten thousand years of civilization shed in an instant when you put a woman behind the wheel of a car.

When one has children one has no privacy. They take it for granted that what is yours is theirs, personal things and the secrets of your heart, as well as possessions.

I get a lot of letters from people. They say "I want to be a writer. What should I do?" I tell them to stop writing to me and to get on with it.

We don't say a man's ill if he's crazy about sex, if he can't get enough sex. Why should a woman be different?

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

The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.