All true wealth is biological.
If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?
I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!
There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards. That's soul-destroying. The other way around is merely very, very irritating.
I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.
Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.