You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.

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.

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.

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