We cannot choose the times we live in. Just as, sometimes, we cannot choose whom we love.
Starting a new novel is a little like starting a new relationship - you have to be prepared to commit for at least three years and put up with the domestic tedium as well as the emotional highs!
Information is the mortar that both builds and destroys empires.
Living is a hazardous profession.
Humiliation scars deeper than the lash.
Danger is an aphrodisiac.