Taylor Caldwell

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

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

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

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.

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.