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

Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.

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

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

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.

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

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