The gain to the winner is always less than the loss to the loser.

Unfortunately most ways of making big money take a long time. By the time one has made the money one is too old to enjoy it.

I would stay away from him and leave him to go his own road where there would be other women, countless other women, who would probably give him as much physical pleasure as he had had with me. I wouldn’t care, or at least I told myself that I wouldn’t care, because none of them would ever own him—own any larger piece of him than I now did.

It's no good protecting people or even looking after them past a certain point. One can't grasp more than a piece of anyone. Most of the rest can only be protected by themselves and the remainder by hired specialists and doctors and dentists and professional protectors.

There is only one recipe for a best seller and it is a very simple one. You have to get the reader to turn over the page.

I was just on the edge of getting married, and I was frenzied at the prospect of this great step in my life after having been a bachelor for so long. And I really wanted to take my mind off of the agony, and so I decided to sit down and write a book.

Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch.