I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which I deplore.

When nothing is sure, everything is possible.

How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.

Scenery can be a violent stimulant.

Lord knows what incommunicable small terrors infants go through, unknown to all.

Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die.

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.

The women are always vixens or monsters. They can't just be normal people in the book.

Nothing fails like failure

Why can't people be both flexible and efficient?

Some have brains, and some haven't, ... and there it is.

Fight the darkness. Fight for the light.

We'll meet again, but you're a lifetime away, and I need you now.

The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions.

I was lucky to grow up at a time when it was not difficult for the child of a tenant farmer to make his way to the state university.

You gotta understand, when moving images first started, people wanted sound, color, big screen and depth.

The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question.

I think you always have to keep your eye open and take advantage of anything that may come your way.

Faria Alam whined about the invasion of her privacy in yet another lucrative interview earlier this week. There is very good money to be made out of whining about the invasion of your privacy.

I said hello unnoticed, you said good-bye too soon.