the end of anything is a relief. In every relationship, even the most valuable, there are certain unpleasant tensions - and the ending of it snaps those taut inner wires.

There's one thing I've always known: You can let people suspect anything else about you, but you must never let them suspect you of knowing what you're doing.

Marygreen did not change in sixteen years. It had changed little enough in the past two years.

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

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

Success is often harder to take than failure.

Everything matters, but nothing matters very much.