If this is dying, Chloe thought, I'd like to do it again sometime.

Something primal was awake within her, a violent will to live as old as the universe itself.

The kiss wove between gentle and frenzied, liquid and greedy, silken and primal, and he sucked every second of bliss he could from the forbidden pleasure.

If you have God's presence, you have favor. One minute of God's presence can accomplish more than 20 years of your striving.

I will never leave the theater. My heart is there and I love being on stage eight times a week.

You occupied my space. But because you were not in my present, when I looked into my future I saw . . . nothing. Isn't that sad? And stupid?

That's just the way people's brains work. If you want to talk about something, you have to reduce it to a form that can be understood. That's one of the reasons I'm not good about boiling down music.

Powerful men often succeed through the help of their wives. Powerful women only succeed in spite of their husbands.

I am number one in the world, so I have the right to be arrogant

It's a very broad and not very well-disguised effort of Russians to create questions about the legitimacy of these Western elections. And, I think, this is very K.G.B.

I like to carry around extremely pretentious books, and I don't know if I can read them, but if I hold them near me, it imbues me with a sense of powerful intelligence.

Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.