I used to hate flying. I would sit there, rigid, convinced that if I relaxed, the plane would drop out of the sky.

And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water, there comes a point where simply no more will be absorbed.

I barely knew I had skin before I met you.

Being in love, you know... it's not like having a canary, in a cage. When you lose one sweetheart, you can't just go out and get another to replace her.

Even ashes are a part of your freedom.

I knew Id always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, Well, Id rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one.

I do love the past but wouldnt want to live in it.

Why do gentlemen's voices carry so clearly, when women's are so easily stifled?

Why is it we can never love the people we ought to?

I never expected my books to do even as well as they have. I still feel grateful for it, every single day.

With every step I took away from her, the movement at my heart and between my legs grew more defined: I felt like a ventriloquist, locking his protesting dolls in to a trunk.

In these few minutes, I was Beethoven's captive and I couldn't have been a more willing participant.

A woman wields power to build a home or destroy a home.

I dream of things I know nothing about.

But it would be absolutely mistaken to regard a wealth of theoretical knowledge as characteristic proof for the qualities and abilities of a leader.

Everyone of us is a potential convict.

Who's your fat friend ?

I love you Max,"Fang said..."God, Max I love you so much." I know. I thought. I've always known

I'm half Hawaiian and the haka is a very sacred thing, something your family teaches you - my father taught me.

The skyline is etched in my veins. You can never put that out, no matter how hard it rains.

The ungovernable passion for wealth. [Lat., Opum furiata cupido.]