Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues. Could you say we were guilty of Noel Cowardice?

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better than a C-plus.

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

There are many out there who proudly call themselves critics, but I have come to see that many of those critics have never tested their own skill.

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

The first forms of writing emerged not for art, literature, or love, not for spiritual or liturgical purposes, but for business--all literature could be said to originate from sales receipts (sorry).

I first met the subject of X-ray diffraction of crystals in the pages of the book W. H. Bragg wrote for school children in 1925, Concerning the Nature of Things.

If you look at books that describe the 16 personality types, you can see how different they are from each other.

I hate posterity - it's so fond of having the last word.

A man may have the best of wealth, cars and fame. But there is nothing more precious in life that he will get than a woman's heart.

Beauty is a type of art everyone is trying to perfect, but no one realizes it's abstract art.

Truth is one, paths are many.

My country or the stars Or my youth, what's farthest?