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

there are only two ways to make a lot [of money] while you're young: One is to entertain the public; and the other is to cheat it.

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

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

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

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.

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