One of the best lovers in Hollywood. What would a title like that encompass exactly? she wondered. Technique? Enthusiasm? Or was it more about equipment?

Later she would think about how he'd snuck up on her so silently. The man was on crutches - what was he, a ninja or something?

I'm not too heavy?" she asked. He had just come off crutches, after all.Sophie, you're practically a midget, " he reminded her.

Lucus?"She found him on the bed in the master suite, lying with his arms crossed behind his head, glaring at the ceiling as though it had done him wrong in some way.

We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening them.

English can be weird. It can be understood through tough thorough thought, though.

Vision is the end of religion.

Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures costs nothing and conveys much. It pleases him who gives and receives and thus like mercy is twice blessed.

If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.

Hunger never saw bad bread.

I grew up in New Jersey and never went up the Statue of Liberty.

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.

Tantric Zen is not being kinky; nor is it being conservative and austere. It is eclectic. It is a real mixture of all things.

You have to be present, awake and happy now.