[Sex] is something big and cosmic. What else do we have? There's only birth and death and the union of two people - and sex is the only one that happens to us more than once.

I think Americans love success - but hate the people who have it.

Half the joys and half the sorrows of this world are discovered in bed.

She was luxuriously tired and her muscles felt sore from the unaccustomed strain of riding astride. Nothing had ever tasted so good as the cool golden ale she swallowed from a pewter tankard. She slept deeply that night and longer than she had intended.

If you had better sense you’d have learned by now that nothing thrives so well as wickedness

I guess experience is just learning at first hand the things you knew all along anyway.

Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should, they never get around to do what they want to do.