With a hoarse moan, he swept her against him, kissing her wildly, passionately, his mouth promising and teasing, as if her kiss had broken the dam that had held back his passion.

Buchan had discovered a wealth of small tidbits. He now knew her first name - Tatiana. Like Shakespeare's fairy queen. "Be she but little, she is fierce.

It was Nathaniel's boundless capacity for stating the obvious that made him so charmingly human.

The human race is a race of cowards and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

Each of your breaths is a priceless jewel, since each of them is irreplaceable and once gone, can never be retrieved.

A fan once stopped me outside a theatre and gave me as a gift a signed photograph of Sir Laurence Olivier. It was strange, but nice, too.

If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad.

I trim my opponents to fit my arrows.

Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.

I like business, and the truth is I save way more than I spend. I invest. I plan for the future. I have a special eye for opportunities and work harder than anyone might expect.