Everything matters, but nothing matters very much.

I've got a penny-ante talent, out of which I try to drum up a living for myself. And what nobody seems to realize is that it's just as difficult to get a bad idea as a good one.

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.

Everything matters, but nothing matters very much.

The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.

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

It seemed that up until this moment she had been only half alive.