While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen.

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 can't exist without books.

Nobody really lives in the present.

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.

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?