“It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.”

“I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.”

“Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.”

“I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.”

“Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.”

“Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.”

“I do not see how it is possible for a man to die worth fifty million of dollars, or ten million of dollars, in a city full of want, when he meets almost every day the withered hand of beggary and t...”

“Alderic, Knight of the Order of the City and the Assault, hereditary Guardian of the King's Peace of Mind, a man not unremembered among the makers of myth, pondered so long upon the Gibbelins' hoar...”

“It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.”

“You have succeeded in life when all you really WANT is only what you really NEED.”

“There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.”

“I find it odd- the greed of mankind. People only like you for as long as they perceive they can get what they want from you. Or for as long as they perceive you are who they want you to be. But I l...”