Humiliation scars deeper than the lash.

The novelist is more a marathon runner than long-distance runner and the kind of courage it takes working in such isolation cannot be underestimated. I really respect my fellow writers on this front.

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.

Death strips all men of dignity.

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

Danger is an aphrodisiac.

We cannot choose the times we live in. Just as, sometimes, we cannot choose whom we love.