Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting.
A sense of responsibility would spoil her. She's too pretty.
And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
Egyptian Proverb: The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not.
I used to build dreams about you.
There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.
I think politics are a part of life, so I have no resistance to it, but it's not something I set out to do.
The preface is the most important part of a book. Even reviewers read a preface.