All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and. . . you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

I'm not very popular, because they're bleak and they're mournful and all the rest of it and I get censorious reviews. But I'm only writing fiction. I'm not making munitions, so I think it's acceptable.

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.

A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in.