Virtue makes for a cold bed.

Beauty becomes tinged with sadness when experienced alone.

What I should do and what I want to do are two opposing forces. I have no idea which way I am going to end up.

I had never encountered a being who deliberately perpetuated fraud against himself.

Women are our most miraculous muse, an enchanted intangibility that encourages all art.

The only time the word baby doesn't scare me is the time that it should, when it is what a man calls me.

He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.

,000 people in Hampden Park. Of course they're all Scottish. Because no one else goes there. The English have an unwritten rule: they only go to places they might get back from.

His cold eyes stared at me. At last, he said wearily: "I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.

Tears aren't a woman's only weapon.

We are each others angels in the way that we answer each others prayers and we can also make each others lives miserable.

The New England spirit does not seek solutions in a crowd; raw light and solitariness are less dreaded than welcomed as enhancers of our essential selves.

I would we were all of one mind, and one mind good.