He was one of those people things came easily to, but he did little to demonstrate that he deserved to be gifted.

You can learn a lot from your lovers, but-for the most part-you get to keep your friends longer, and you learn more from them.

He had heard her say, so many times, that a society that approved of making abortion illegal was a society that approved of violence against women; that making abortion illegal was simply a sanctimonious, self-righteous form of violence against women- it was just another way of legalizing violence against women, Nurse Caroline would say.

I've always been a fan of the 19th century novel, of the novel that is plotted, character-driven, and where the passage of time is almost as central to the novel as a major minor character, the passage of time and its effect on the characters in the story.

He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.

I've always been slow but I'm even slower now. I'm more into the waiting, or I guess I'm more patient about the waiting.

But I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people.