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

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.

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

[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.

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

Everything matters, but nothing matters very much.

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.