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

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?

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.

The Bible is to your soul what bread is to your body. You need it daily. One good meal does not suffice for a lifetime.

Putting pen to paper without first deciding the route and pace at which to scribe is like setting off on a bicycle without first checking the tyres.

Necessity never made a good bargain.

I wish you wouldn't walk in and out of my mind as though it was a railway station!

A garden is not a picture, but a language.

A school is not a factory. Its raison d'être is to provide opportunity for experience.

Pray for a peaceful and contented mind in all circumstances.

Mileage makes champions

Man is a mimic animal, happiest acting a part, needing a mask to tell the truth.

Truth never envelops itself in mystery, and the mystery in which it is at any time enveloped is the work of its antagonist, and never of itself.