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.

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.

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

Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening.

The knives of jealousy are honed on details.

I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money.