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

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!

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

Trust is won not given.

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.

Be bad, and if you can't be bad be worse.