I was completely and irrevocably in lust

The problem with books is that they end.

... she had painted her lips and was holding in her hollowed hands a beautiful, banal, Eden-red apple.

It seems only yesterday I used to believethere was nothing under my skin but light.If you cut me I could shine.

Affronts to her reputation pierced her to the heart, though I couldn’t understand why, since she had very little character left to defend.

I have women working in high positions. I was one of the first people to put women in charge of big construction jobs. And, you know, I've had a great relationship with women.

You never know you are in a prison unless you try the door

God does uncommon things through common people in common places.

For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to destroy us. Every angel is terrible.

I really enjoy doing films, but I also love television. I certainly would not be against doing some regular television work and being on a show that runs several years.

Everything should be understood, and anything can be transformed - that is the modern view.