I never really know the title of a book until it's finished.

They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises.

That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they don't understand.

Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car.

Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love.

I always read that men don't like intelligent girls, but I've always found the reverse.

People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.

Rebecca is an example of how not to manage men. The rules of the game never change, it requires subtlety.

I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school.

Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot.

I have a garden, and I'm passionately interested in young people.

To love, and all the heartache that weighs it down.To love, and all the heartbeats that lift it up.

No man ever became very wicked all at once.

Sometimes the lambs slaughter the butcher.

We have the world's best military, even though he (President Barack Obama) has done everything he can to diminish it.

A light snow, a snow so faint and small-bodied that it seems nothing more than a manifestation of the cold.

The idea that Hillary Clinton's plan wants to increase Syrian refuges by 550 percent is very concerning to many Americans. They know what has happened. They know there's home-grown terrorism here.

After exponential quantities the circular functions, sine and cosine, should be considered because they arise when imaginary quantities are involved in the exponential.

It is good for me that I have been afflicted.

The fact is Burke is smarter than two thirds of the Western Australian Labor Party rolled together.

[On being asked in her later years if she were Tallulah:] I'm what's left of her, dahling.