Even when they did not look at each other or speak to each other, he could feel a powerful current between them.

He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.

He was jealous of her future, and she of his past.

There is a perfection in everything that cannot be owned.

And in his eyes he had the look of the cat who inspires a desire to caress but loves no one, who never feels he must respond to the impulses he arouses.

She abandoned herself to his whim, thinking it was to be an orgy of eyes and hands only.

He never treated her as a wife. He wooed her over and over again, with presents, flowers, new pleasures.

(J)oy deserves always more.

I feel endless need to LEARN, to IMPROVE, to EVOLVE, not only to please the coach and the fans, but also to feel SATISFIED with myself

As a teenager, I was really trying to have fun 24 hours a day. I didn't start thinking until I was 20 or 21. I was doing regular goof-ball stuff.

Nothing exists but atoms and the void.

Music is something I really have a need to do - I don't seem to be able to stop

Leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out by the roots. But you can't do that until your life has grown roots.

Because abortions are illegal, women who need and want them have no choice in the matter, and you-because you know how to perform them-have no choice, either

The President is not squaring with the American people as to the seriousness of our nation's fiscal condition. It is time for people to stand up and tell the truth.

I have to go," he said at last, getting to his feet. "I shouldn't even be here, but I cannot keep my self away from you. I worry about you in every waking moment. I love you, Luce. So much it hurts.

I'm not going to sit here and argue with you. Just PUT THE BLOODY METER ON.