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.

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.

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

Everything matters, but nothing matters very much.

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.

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

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