Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.

Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.

When I go down into the ground at last, as God is my judge, I pray my best-beloved may have better to say of me than, "He didn't hit me."

I have a catch-phrase to describe my plot-generation technique -- 'What's the worst possible thing I can do to these people?'

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

Miles clutched Quinn's elbow. "Don't Panic." "I'm not panicking," Quinn observed, "I'm watching you panic. It's more entertaining .

People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and not in such a damned rush to give yourself to them you go bat-blind and deaf.