“A lady is as young as the gentleman she feels," said Roy and cackled happily.”

“Clever plastic surgery can restore an appearance of youth, but nothing changes the expression of age and experience in the eyes.”

“Ah, when love dies, women lose two and a half inches in height.”

“My lady, it is the lady empress Sextilia Augusta, mother to—’ ‘She knows to whom I am mother. The entire world knows to whom I am mother. The entire world shares my shame.’ The empress’s voice was sharp”

“Blasted spam pigeons!”

“Be daring, be different, be impractical;be anything that will assert integrityof purpose and imaginative visionagainst the play-it-safers.”

“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.”