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.

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.

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.

[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.

Adultery is not a crime, it's an amusement.

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

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