I think that if ever a mortal heard the voice of God it would be in a garden at the cool of the day.

To offer a man friendship when love is in his heart is like giving a loaf of bread to one who is dying of thirst.

There is no stronger bond of friendship than a common enemy.

Fate never knows when comedy ends and tragedy begins.

Would you destroy Something perfect in order to make it beautiful?

I'm certainly dismayed by what I'm seeing now. There's a lot of ugliness of a kind I've never seen in my lifetime, or heard in my lifetime. But, look, I'm a romantic. I'm hopeful.

Goals are like stepping-stones to the stars. They should never be used to put a ceiling or a limit on achievement

Wine makes all things possible.

I always loved animals. And when I was ten, I decided I had to go to Africa and live with animals and write books about them.

The thing I loved about Alfred Hitchcock is that he left a lot of open ends there, a lot of clues that didn't really add up the way you think they would, and sometimes, not at all.

Change, like youth, is purely wasted on the young.

Eternity is not an unending succession of days in the calendar, but something more like the supreme moment of satisfaction, in which totality embraces us and we embrace totality.

GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile

I don't like to call myself a feminist writer. I say I'm a feminist, but I don't write to propagate an ism.