Beauty, delicacy and position-these were the foundations of courtly equestrianism

You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.")

I noticed you made a bee-line for their bookcases." It is the oldest and most incorrigible trait of the book-lover.

You know, the heroes in my romance novels always say that. Scout's honor. But they all later admit to never being a Boy Scout.

The worst thing about me is that I'll buy albums and put them away on the shelf and forget that I've got them.

Marina sighs. "Love's a tidal wave," she says. "Because it sweeps you off your feet?" I ask. "No. Because it sucks you under and you drown.

I was absolutely delighted that those shows have been preserved.

If we think of our brains as a map, those early roads are like grooves, tram tracks, easy to fall into.

contempt for the degradation of specialization and pedantry. Specialization develops only part of a man; a man partially developed is deformed.

Hey Rose, welcome back. You still breaking hearts?" "Are you volunteering?" His grin widened." Let's hang out sometime and find out. If you ever get parole.

Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural.