What is written beneath this heavy handsome book cover will count, so sayeth this cover.

The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught.

The truth is most women are weak, be they mortal or immortal. But when they are strong, they are absolutely unpredictable.

Pride is the parent of destruction; pride eats the mind and the heart and the soul alive.

Oh to have you with me, to have you here, not to be alone, but to be with you, my beauty, you of all souls! You.

For always in her there was a dark place full of despair and a great dividing force to make meaning because there was none.

Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.