I took on the sins of everybody, of a generation, really.

Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.

As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.

My mother used to go out on her own, and I used to have to keep a look out for my stepfather coming home.

The fathers, if they got me alone, would try to kiss and fondle me. I hated it.

Bill Astor knew these papers were missing. Stephen showed his hand in October.

I like to think that people live on in other people's memories.

I never found anyone who was good enough, who I could trust enough.

Even a criminal has the right to a new life, but they made sure I did not have that. They just didn't stop calling me a prostitute for ever and ever and ever and ever.

We knew we were talking about spies. I knew he knew I knew. I was digging my own grave.

One way of reading my life is that I have been in constant search for a father.

Sometimes the heart breaks... Sometimes you break... Sometimes you break your heart by breaking yourself for someone who wouldn't do the same...

Man has been bestowed with all the senses, Alas! What a drama, we are yet to know the art of using it!

Women are aroused by the strangest things, like a rock going through their bedroom window

Who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it?

Beauty loses its relish; the graces never.

We cannot live in the past, nor can we re-create it. Yet as we unravel the past, the future also unfolds before us, as though they are mirrors without which neither can be seen or happen.

The fey in this country keep to themselves, and are a separate nation, much like the American Indians, but with even more autonomy.

To see was terrifying, and to stop seeing tore me apart from my forehead to my throat.

It is always easier to be an epicure of a small repast than of a banquet.

Those are fools however learned Who have not learned to walk with the world.