Taylor Caldwell

I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world.

I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.

I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.

I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, I'm in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or Marvelous Mad Madam Mim.

It appalls me that the people who decide what Americans will be watching on the tube have never been to the United States. Not the real United States.