He's male. I've noticed that sometimes the brains simply get left out of the package.

It’s better to live like a flame, to know a man and love him even if he can’t be yours, then never to love at all.

Life should not be measured by time. The only thing that counts is how one uses the time one has.

Shame can kill the imagination. It's hard to keep writing in the face of cultural derision.

You don't know how easy death is. It's - it's like a door. A person simply walks through it, and she's lost to you forever.

Piers looked up at him. 'You're new. What's your name?' 'Neythen, my lord.' 'Sounds like a terrible illness. No, more like a bowel problem. I'm sorry, Lord Sandys, your son has contracted neythen and won't live a month. No, no, there's nothing I can do. Sandys would have preferred hearing that to syphilis.

Cats always land on their feet. Dogs don't.