I may like to be on my own, but I like being alive.

I want more than last night. I want you.

Nat, ” he whispered and lowered his head. Her heart missed a beat as his soft mouth brushed against hers. Then his lips were atop hers, firmly, his tongue sliding against them.

Look at me, Nat. I won’t bite.” There was a long pause before he said, “Hard.

He leaned in close, his mouth near her ear. “Dance with me.

You can’t change the past. It’s already done. Looking back only keeps you there.

How different her life would be if Orrin hadn’t contacted her in July. She wouldn’t be embroiled in kidnapping, espionage, and murder.

I found that things are always easier when I do them with love.

There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.

Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

Sometimes that whys aren't knowable, so you just have to ignore the whys, and just focus on what is and move on.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think.

I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism.

We've reached a point where we are not a very empathetic people, and art without empathy is art without an audience. My basic viewpoint is that without art we're alone.

That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty.

As a writer, I'm not convinced that we are the best equipped to understand how we go about the business of literary production.