Anthony Trollope

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes.

Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

So we strive for perfection in the areas in which we can control, and that isn't necessarily what provides contentment and joy for ourselves and, more importantly, for our children.

I tweet in the morning and the evening. To write 12 hours a day, there is a moment when you're really tired. It's my relaxing time.