if you ask me, nobody really likes people who are always doing their duty.

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?

Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.

I married an archeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.

The lure of the past came up to grab me. To see a dagger slowly appearing, with its gold glint, through the sand was romantic. The carefulness of lifting pots and objects from the soil filled me with a longing to be an archaeologist myself.