The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will

I told you I set no limits on my love for you. I don't. Yet I have never expected you to offer me your body. It was the whole of your heart, all for myself, that I sought. Even though I've never had a right to it. For you gave it away ere ever you saw me.

To be honest, I don't think of any of my characters as minor characters - they're all the main characters in a story that I don't necessarily get to tell.

How do you politely explain to someone that you had believed for years he was a moron as well as a Fool?

Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.

Everybody has felt at one time or another that everyone else in the world had a better shot than they did, so when you engage that, you engage the reader, and I think you create a character that brings the reader more fully into the story.

the greatest danger is always the one we are ignorant of.