Leaning forward he placed his lips over hers. She told herself he was breathing life into her, but the truth was he'd always been sucking it out, slowly, one breath at a time. - From ENGRAVED

Maturity of a woman is not in her age or size for age is just a number and size is figure.

A financer is a pawnbroker with an imagination.

Funny is only something that others know about you - you can't be funny by yourself.

Don't listen to what anybody says except the people who encourage you. If it's what you want to do and it's within yourself, then keep going and try to do it for the rest of your life.

Half a loaf is better than none.

There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitching of a mean merrymaker.

One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened.

Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.

I have come to this conclusion that there is only one country in the world which understands religion - it is India.

Queen Guenever, for whom I make here a little mention, that while she lived she was a true lover, and therefore she had a good end.