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

Chess is the most intimate game in the world. It's like making love. By the time we finish our first slow game, I will know all his thoughts.

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

The books weren't exactly Linnet's general reading fare, but a desperate woman will read anything.

There's nothing I like more than meeting velvet clad peers while wrapped in a towel.

If you throw me out of this house, I shall sleep on the path outside. If you return to the Continent without me, I shall follow you. I will build a willow hut at your gate; I will sleep under your window; I will be waiting for you at your own front door.

Dogs do tricks. Cats play tricks.