His time was past, her handmaid Irri declared. No man should live longer than his teeth.

I work for two years on a book and it comes out and two days later I've got my first e-mail: When is the next one coming out?

When your enemies defy you, you must serve them steel and fire. When they go to their knees, however, you must help them back to their feet. Elsewise no man will ever bend the knee to you

A sweet face oft hides a sinner's heart.

When a pirate grows rich enough, they make him a prince.

We're all just songs in the end. If we are lucky.

He had found over the years that silence sometimes yielded more than questions. And so it was this time.