One needed, she saw now, only a few belongings, just as one needed only a few close friends, and a single passion - it need not be a person, neccissarily.

...there are only two things that really matter in life. Literature and love.

Men grow tired of sleep love singing and dancing sooner than of war.

There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.

There is no virtue in penance and fasting which waste the body; they are only fanatical and monkish.

We watch our competitors, learn from them, see the things that they were doing for customers and copy those things as much as we can.

If you spend enough time in or around Washington, you'll meet amazing people who work for the government.

No one is as good and merciful as the Lord. But even He does not forgive the unrepentant.

As God is propitiated by the blood of a hundred bulls, so also is he by the smallest offering of incense. [Lat., Sed tamen ut fuso taurorum sanguine centum, Sic capitur minimo thuris honore deux.]

It’s not enough to have talent. You also have to be Hungarian.

When I got off the soap I got offered all these, you know, 'women in jeopardy' -- I call them 'disease of the week' movies.

The TV weatherman has always been one of the best, most secure jobs. They change anchors, they change the set, producers come and go. But the weather person hangs on forever!