The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy. Consistency was in itself distinction, and what was talent but the art of being completely whatever it was that one happened to be?

She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.

We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

'I'd rather sink trying to be different, than stay afloat like everyone else'

It is all very well to be able to write books, but can you waggle your ears?

Michael's a natural. He's a very hard worker and a super performer. But most of all he's a real human being.