If you love people, they kill you. If you need people, they kill you. They do I tell you!

It's no fun to be a bluestocking in a family of jockstraps.

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.

What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance?

When we press the thorn to our chest we know, we understand, and still we do it.

Oh, that feels good! I don't know who invented ties and then insisted a man was only properly dressed when he wore one, but if I ever meet him, I'll strangle him with his own invention