Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.

We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future.

All human relationships must be purchased with money.

A man who fights for coin is loyal only to his purse.

Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.

a man who hates music can’t be trusted, I always say.

Every man must die, Jon Snow. But first he must live.

What would a Frey know of honor? - Sir Davos Seaworth

a woman, when she is heroic, is not heroic by halves.

Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.

The devil is a very big angel, but a very little man.

Doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction.

Who can deny that the environment has been destroyed?

I'm a social caterpillar. I am not a social butterfly

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls.

Courage is the most common and vulgar of the virtues.

There is a woe that is wisdom, a woe that is madness.

Happiness may perhaps be shared. But not luck, sadly.

A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.

There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.

Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.

Doubt follows white-winged hope with trembling steps.

How easily this unthinking family love was forgotten.

What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?

He said, 'Yeah, but will I get chicks? In truckloads?

They hold a grudge like it was their family treasure.

I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.

What worries me is the professionalism of everything.

I never started from ideas but always from character.

I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.

charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use.

A ton of Proust isn’t worth an ounce of Ray Bradbury.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!

I am proud of having done what I've done. Very proud.

I don't think about who the audience is for my books.

I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.

There's a time and a place for getting a smart mouth.

Some of her self-hatred had oozed out with the blood.

Yeah, but coming from Dudley that's like "I love you.

He was having an illicit affair... with his own mate.

I'm not hurt. I'm pissed off and sexually frustrated.

What's in store for me in the direction I don't take?

It is possible for the human spirit to win after all.

I'm writing this book because we're all going to die.

No one would think he'd make such a beautiful corpse.

A nation is the same people living in the same place.

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