Why must this be so mortifying? Oh, that's right. Because its my life.

He rubbed his hands up and down, warming her. “Then that’s all you need to know. I have you. If there are beasties in the dark, they have to get through me.

And she was well-enough acquainted with loneliness to understand that the worst part wasn't having nobody caring for you - it was having nobody to care for.

Izzy felt as though she’d wandered into the third act of a play. She had no idea what was going on, but it was unbearably dramatic.

Of course one kiss changes things. If it's done right, a kiss changes everything.

No man deserves a woman like that. He mortgages his very soul to win her and spends his life paying off the debt.

Then she sighed. Just the faintest, softest release of breath. The sound swept through his chest like a hurricane, with the force to topple trees.

Cecil: “A cup of love is greater than a pitcher full of ambition.

Surely: the adverb of a man without an argument.

Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.

It is often said that Leonardo drew so well because he knew about things; it is truer to say that he knew about things because he drew so well.

If people are not smoking, they'll probably be drinking more.

Buddhism itself is all about empowering yourself, not about getting what you want.

It is just possible that the tensions in a novel of murder are the simplest and yet most complete pattern of the tensions on which we live in this generation.

If Communism goes, I've still got the U.S. House of Representatives.

You'll never go to the library and find a book on how to fail, because we all do it.

If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational.