Belief doesn't rest on proof or existence...it rests on faith...without faith there is nothing.

That's the purpose of old age... To give us a breathing space before we die, in which to see why we did what we did.

..the best is only bought at the cost of great pain...or so says the legend

I think explicit love scenes are a turn off unless it's the kind you read with one hand.

My books and other works are my legacy, and it's a great comfort to know that mine is a legacy of pleasure for other people.

And gradually his memory slipped a little, as memories do, even those with so much love attached to them; as if there is an unconscious healing process within the mind which mends up in spite of our desperate determination never to forget.

...she looked like the sort of woman most men would want to get to know because they weren't sure what went on inside.