“How do I wish to be remembered, if at all? I think perhaps just as a fairly desirable sort of character actor.”

“A successful writer is not a millionaire or best seller. A successful writer is one that has touched another human being with their words. When you do that you have something better than money and fame. You have given another human being something honest." - James Mason”

“Sometimes I discover I have changed my mind because I have forgotten what I used to think.”

“Outside books, we avoid colorful characters.”

“Children pay little attention to their parents' teachings, but reproduce their characters faithfully”

“ Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.”

“I think women gather up into themselves what they have been through much more than we (men) do. To them, what is past becomes a real part of them, as much a part of them as a limb; to us it's always something external, at the best the rung of a ladder, at the worst a weight on the heel.”