Memory is a great deceiver: it embroiders until naught is left but the glory and the pleasure.

Believe, my child. Faith is the food of survival.

A man who denies his past is a man who truly denies himself a future, for he refuses to know himself, and to deny knowledge of oneself is to stumble through life as handicapped as the blind mute.

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

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!

Memory is a great deceiver: it embroiders until naught is left but the glory and the pleasure.

You must appreciate that love is the last reason for which a man marries.