I don't think any war is worth having our soldiers killed.
You've got your hands full if you have three children under 2 years old.
My biggest critics have never read me.
I woke up last night and thought: 'I must call somebody in my next novel Casablanca. ' It's such a great name. I don't want to call anybody Fred or Jane or Susan, so when three people get into bed together, you don't know who they are.
I'm a storyteller; I write what I want to read.
Men are cheaters. Women are not to be trusted. And most people are dumb.
I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They tell me what to do; they take me on a wild and wonderful trip.
I have never made an inflammatory statement in my life
The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing for him alone. Yet it was these same bells which had made him deaf; but mothers are often fondest of the child who has made them suffer most.
A designer without a sense of history is worth nothing
Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions. . . are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their friends.