“When beggars die, there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.”
“She had been a comet; and her blazing descent through dark skies had been plain for all to see.”
“But that initial, comet-blazing-across-the-sky, Big Idea is only the beginning. Each book is composed of a mosaic of thousands of little ideas, ideas that invariably come to me at two in the morning when my alarm is set for seven.”
“...if truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom...”
“A prince is venison in heaven.”
“The muffled tongue of Big Ben tolled nine by the clock as the cortege left the palace, but on history's clock it was sunset, and the sun of the old world was setting in a dying blaze of splendor never to be seen again.”