And she felt as though she had been there, on that bench, for an eternity. For an infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space.

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far end the door was bolted.

As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with aplomb and ran from one end of the keyboard to the other without a stop.

She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality of marriage.

The smooth folds of her dress concealed a tumultuous heart, and her modest lips told nothing of her torment. She was in love.

An infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space.

...those works that don't touch the heart, it seems to me, miss the true aim of Art.

Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.

Financial demands, of all the rough winds that blow upon our love, (are) quite the coldest and the most biting.

One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.

The young need discipline and a full bookcase.

When followed correctly, the Dukan Diet is both a safe and effective method of weight loss.

Remember chief of staff Rahm Emanuel's callous enjoinder 'you never want a serious crisis to go to waste'? This White House is a serious crisis.

I just want to say I owe the whole reds organization a great deal. Great staff top to bottom and I wish those guys all the best.

Being a good neighbor is an art which makes life richer.

No one could have fathomed what a life he'd led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind.

Entrust everything to Me and do nothing on your own, and you will always have great freedom of spirit.

The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ.

Communism teaches and seeks two objectives: unrelenting class warfare and the complete eradication of private ownership.

I knew that by getting behind the wheel of the car and having had something to drink, the responsibility laid on my shoulders.