Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.

Folks will say anything, and next time round they'll believe it.

Perhaps loneliness had nothing to do with place or circumstance; perhaps it was in you; yourself. Perhaps, wherever you were, you took your little circle of loneliness with you.

Every man carries the seed of his own death, and you will not be more than a man. You will have everything; you cannot have more.

Sometimes, I think, our impulses come not from the past, but from the future.

It is not true that women cannot keep secrets. Where they love, they can be trusted to death and beyond, against all sense and reason. It is their weakness, and their great strength.

The gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage.