"The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties."

The simplest solutions are often the most elegant.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?'

The most sustainable resource is human ingenuity.