“Only one person in 1000 is a bore, and HE is interesting because he is one person in 1000.”

“The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.”

“To be a good diarist one must have a little snouty sneaky mind.”

“Sometimes two people have to fall apart, to realize how much they need to fall back together.”

“Good literature is one key to peace. When we stop reading each other, when we stop paying attention to each other's words and stories, we too easily oppose one another.”

“There is only one motive for writing a novel: to be published and read. To me there is no distinction between the mystery novel and the novel, only between good books and bad books. A good book tak...”