The sign of a good novel is what it can cause its reader to see, even if this lies beyond the author's own vision.

In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart.

We're all lost souls here. It's a good thing we've got each other.

That is what a very Christian message is: to care about each other and to help those who need it the most.

The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.

I should have proposed that night in your room." "I should have let you.

I do not know whether I would not like much better to have produced one perfectly formed child by intercourse with the muses than by intercourse with my wife.

How happy I would be if I could give figurative expression to the unconscious feeling that often murmurs so softly and sweetly within me.

I hate running. I know I'm curvier - I know I'm small, but I'm not ripped. But I make a choice to be that way. I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.

Fair daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon: As yet the early-rising sun Has not attained his noon.

As a champion, I can't fight against weak fighters.