Margaret Mead

I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.

Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.