“Biographies are best when written chronologically. Boring people don't make for good biographies.”

“Fact is much more fascinating than fiction.”

“The desire for her was a taste he had acquired with the first sip. What would become of him when he could no longer drink from her sweet well?”

“We must not wait to be happy. We have to start right now, right this very second.”

“Men may accept a bastard into their rough world if he be willing to fight like a tiger to prove himself to them. However, he is an embarrassment to all women, for he symbolizes a sister's fall from grace.”

“It's like Thomas Aquinas told Charlemagne in an overpriced bistro in Nice: "You never realize how much shit you have until you have to move it all.”

“Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.”