I wonder if my shrink (sorry, psychiatrist) was a woman not a man I'd be in a better or worse state?

If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.

Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.

I didn't even know I was a feminist until I read it on the back of one of my own books.

The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.

Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can.

Marriage is a very difficult relationship for nearly everyone and I'm sure you shouldn't do it if you want a quiet little easy life.

guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine

She could see that to lose a sibling was hard: it could only seem unnatural:out of time, out of order, a vicious re-run of your own departure into nothingness.

She wanted him, but she didn't want to want him.

The ego resists change. False pride is an impediment to change.

Wipe out the entire defense potential remaining to the Soviets.

The only characters I've made to resemble real people have been grotesques.

The costermongers' boys will, I am informed, cheat their employers, but they do not steal from them.

I just love being in the U.K.

The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.

We may be human, but we're still animals.

My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.

For better or worse, the United States enjoys the lion's share of public and media attention. We influence much of the conversation on social and public media by sheer volume.