He wished for access to all the world's languages at once, for then he would have a better word for how he felt and what she was.

He was still thoughtful. 'Do you think any of us ever really knows anyone?' 'Philosophy, Lord Dryden? And yet it's daylight and everyone is still sober.

He would ask nothing else from life if he would be allowed to protect and cherish her for the rest of his.

I love you so much i can hardly tell my own heart from yours anymore, and I've never said it to another woman in my life as it's never until now been true.

Of course you're sorry. The first words out of the mouths of men who are caught doing something they're only too happy to continue until they're caught.

It isn't a weakness to accept kindness. It isn't a weakness to allow yourself to be cared for.

Magnanimous of you.'His mouth twitched. 'Mmm. Use more words like that, please. Schoolmistress words. Long, impressive ones.' He'd made the last three words sound like an innuendo.

He was close enough now to see that her profile was designed to do dramatic things to hearts: stop them, steal them, break them.

The question remains... who takes care of you, Miss Vale?" "I might ask the same question of you, Lord Dryden.

Their faces were inches apart now, and he traced her lips with one finger, lightly, lightly, then placed his lips there as if he’d drawn them into being.

Only two things kept her from loathing him.The expression on his face when he'd said, "France." And the expression on his face when he'd said, "home.

She seemed to think that one of the perks of marriage was that it gave you rights of comment and intrusion over single people's love lives.

May I love Him whom to love is to live indeed.

There is no membership required for shining the light.

By this reckoning he is more a shrew than she.

Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County: any town with thirteen churches and only four bars has got an incipient social problem. That town is looking for trouble.

It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.

We have retained the forms and phrases of a republic, but in reality we are living under an oligarchy, not of courtesan, but of bureaucrats.

I went to Walter Reed hospital a couple of times to visit wounded soldiers, kids with no legs and one arm. You start to question some things.

I never see my movies. When they're on television, I click them away. Hollywood created an image, and I long ago reconciled myself with it. I was the French cliche.

There's a lot of things that I don't promote and I do promote mescaline. They open places in your mind that other things don't and if you're smiling, why not?