It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything.
Barbie's one of those fads whose popularity makes you lose all faith in the human race.
I learned everything I know about plot from Dame Agatha (Christie).
I have never written anything in one draft, not even a grocery list, although I have heard from friends that this is actually possible.
I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science fiction.
Why do only the awful things become fads? I thought. Eye-rolling and Barbie and bread pudding. Why never chocolate cheesecake or thinking for yourself?
And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L. A. to Dickens's London.
The bestway to diffuse an argument is to listen first, second, and last.
If a woman is into me, it usually takes me awhile to figure that out. She has to hit me over the head with it.
Every nation has the right to demand proper treatment and no country should violate the territory of any other country.
Do good, be good and see good. Do everything with love.