Not for the first time, I reflected that intimacy and romance are not synonymous.

When the day shall come that we do part," he said softly, and turned to look at me, "if my last words are not 'I love you'-ye'll ken it was because I didna have time.

Does it ever stop? The wanting you?" "Even when I've just left ye. I want you so much my chest feels tight and my fingers ache with wanting to touch ye again.

It was a beautiful bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it.

Torn between the impulse to stroke his head, and the urge to cave it in with a rock, I did neither.

I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem.

For so many years, for so long, I have been so many things, so many different men. But here," he said, so softly I could barely hear him, "here in the dark, with you… I have no name.

One dictum I had learned on the battlefields of France in a far distant war: You cannot save the world, but you might save the man in front of you, if you work fast enough.

Lord, ye gave me a rare woman, and God! I loved her well.

You dinna need to understand me, Sassenach," he said quietly. "So long as you love me.

D'ye ken that the only time I am without pain is in your bed, Sassenach? When I take ye, when I lie in your arms-my wounds are healed, then, my scars forgotten.

Nothing is ever black and white, Nila. You should know that bu now. Its all how you survive the grey." -Kes

What is?', he said. 'What if?' is a question that belongs to magic.

I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.

I know that sometimes in my own life I really felt like killing people.

All entities move and nothing remains still.

The typical American corporation is a shareholders' republic the same way that China is a peoples' republic.

Greg Maddux could put a baseball through a life saver if you asked him.

The best way to help the poor is the provide them property rights.

The first condition a community should set, if it aspires to be a nation, is to own the land whereon it lives, and supply its own needs.

Suicide is the only way out.