Kate realized she had a grave problem. She was infatuated. Or mildly insane. Possibly both.

You’re hurt.”“No. No, I’m fine. It’s not blood. The militiamen were adjusting Sir Lewis’s trebuchet, and there was a mishap. You took a melon for me.” She smiled, even though her lips trembled.

To die hating them, that was freedom.

Whisky, gambling and Ferraris are better than housework.

The stars sparkled above the mist shrouded tents and caravans of the carnival. The night crackled with an odd vibration, as if a veil of peculiarity settled over the company.

Editing one’s writing is as easy as lighting a match while riding a bicycle.

One of the best things that I wanted to become a teacher is that

It is easy to be beautiful it is difficult to appear so.

Anybody who's ever gone through a hard time - any outsider's perception, no matter how much information they're given, they have no idea what the person's life is like.

Someone asked me what legacy I wanted to leave and all my answers were so long that I even bored him. I said I don't care. Why should I? I will die someday. So if you like, remember me.

Sometimes the failures can be exciting and fun. It's just a step on the road, it's not the end of something.

Every intellectual product must be judged from the point of view of the age and the people in which it was produced.