The wise wait for their moment, but never let it pass.

A friendship between a man and a woman was what you called it when one had been pursuing the other for a long time and never gotten anywhere.

I think the further away you get from completing a book, the more responses you see to it from readers, the more your own tastes and opinions shift and the more you start to see things you could have written differently in the detail, or done differently on the broader scale of plot and character.

Once you've got a task to do, it's better to do it than live with the fear of it.

Sometimes men change for the better. Sometimes men change for the worse. And often, very often, given time and opportunity . . .’ He waved his flask around for a moment, then shrugged. ‘They change back.

Love is a fine cushion to rest upon, but only hate can make you a better person.

It's hard to be done a favor by a man you hate. It's hard to hate him so much afterwards. Losing an enemy can be worse than losing a friend, if you've had him for long enough.