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.

[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.

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 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.

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

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.