To be desired by those who are themselves highly desirable is in itself an aphrodisiac.

It seems to me that women are freed from their responsibilities only when they are merry widows or eccentric old spinsters.

Information is the mortar that both builds and destroys empires.

Love wasn't a piece of music you could play over and over again with different interpretations. It actually needed to be improvised as you went along.

Rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, don't be precious about your first draft, it's an architectural blueprint to a whole building, be your own worst critic, confront your weakness and remember it's a craft.

So many of man's actions appear to have no immediate consequence but, concealed, do their work until finally all catches up and forms a complex web of cause and effect.

Living is a hazardous profession.