Dogs can be made to feel guilty about anything, including the sins of their owners. Cats refuse to take the blame for anything - including their own sins.
I've been reading ghost stories ever since I could read. I'm immensely curious about ghosts and UFOs and all that stuff, but I'm a very hard-headed person.
I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read.
I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.
Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.
Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas - an idea a page.
It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.
He hesitated for a moment. Then he said softly, "I love you, Mother." He took my hand and kissed it, and folded my fingers round the stem of the rose. He had stripped it of its thorns.
I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
When men start talking about 'honor', there is sure to be trouble ahead.
The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.
Everything has happened before - not once, but over and over again. We may not be able to solve our problems through what are pompously called "the lessons of history," but at least we should be able to recognize the issues and perhaps avoid some of the solutions that have failed in the past. And we can take heart in our own dilemma by realizing that other people in other times have survived worse.
Sekhmet crawled onto Ramses's lap and began to purr. 'The creature oozes like a furry slug,' said Ramses, eyeing it without favor.
Cats always made up to the people who hated them the most. Depending on how you chose to look at it, it was a touching manifestation of trust, or a malicious pleasure in human discomfort.
a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.
If someone lies down and invites you to trample upon him, you are a remarkable individual if you decline the invitation.
Superstition has its practical uses.
Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.
