Stars in the night,' he said. 'Something something something something, some delight

You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition

When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.

I shall be dark and French and fashionable and difficult. And you shall be sweet and open and English and fair. What a pair we shall be! What man can resist us?

Edward lives as if there is no tomorrow, Richard as if he wants no tomorrow, and George as though someone should give it to him for free.

You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman.

Every woman has to have something which singles her out, which catches the eyes, which makes her the center of attention. I am going to be french.

Just because one man calls him Allah and another calls him God is no reason for believers to be enemies.

Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the turn of it with courage.

Words have weight, something once said cannot be unsaid. Meaning is like a stone dropped into a pool; the ripples will spread and you cannot know what back they wash against.

I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing for death and a constant rejection of life. She lived like darkness in her own day.

Make love your religion, and all the citadels of man-made religious conflicts shall disappear from the face of earth once and for all.

So much of what holds us back in life are the long-held resentments stemming from childhood.

A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.

Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird.

The inexpressible is the only thing that is worthwhile.

Rest assured that if you work every day at your art, using the materials nearest at hand, you will gradually discover such beauty in them that they will fill you with happiness.

Love is the song of the soul singing to God. It is the balanced rhythmic dance of planets - sun and moon lit

The drums have hogged a lot of the credit. We're as much -- or more -- *cymbal* players, as we are drummers.

All good trips are, like love, about being carried out of yourself and deposited in the midst of terror and wonder.

I find that in a novel I can get more of life, perhaps not such intense life, but certainly more of life than in poetry.