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.

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.

I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.

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

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

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.

We no more forget the faces of our enemies than of those we love.