Taylor Caldwell

“Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.”

“I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul.”

“The world is a penal institution.”

“I am a Westerner of Westerners!”

“I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.”

“Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.”

“Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.”

“My childhood was appalling.”

“No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.”

“I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.”

“I will ge glad to have done with this life forever.”

“I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.”

“One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India.”

“At 8, I made a pact with God.”

“My dreams are all follies.”

“The feeble soul merely whines and complains.”

“The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.”

“If there is a God, then he was particularly harsh to me.”

“Tel Aviv appeals to me.”

“My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.”