“I pride myself on making my own decisions, sir," she said. "I do not welcome gentlemen making them for me.”

“What kind of boats do smart people ride on? Scholar ships.”

“Women marry thinking their chosen men would change, and they don’t! Men marry thinking their chosen counterpart won’t change, and they do!!”

“To write fiction you have to engage in organised fraud, the laundering of experience into the offshore haven of words.”

“BE A LAWYER in a lawless time was like being a clown among the humorless: which was to say, either completely redundant or absolutely essential.”

“He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.”

“It’s terrifying to realize your own decisions are shaping your destiny.”

“Tomorrow is tomorrow. Over there is over there. And here and now is not a bad place and time to be, especially when so much of the unknown is beautiful.”