Work on." Work as if every time you started with and every time you finish.

You modern men, you children of reason, cannot begin to appreciate love as pure bliss and divine serenity.

You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors.

You have corrupted my imagination and inflamed my blood.

Never feel safe with the woman you love, for a woman's nature conceals more dangers than you think.

Be then my slave, and know what it means to be delivered into the hands of a woman.

Whoever allows himself to be whipped, deserves to be whipped.

A real apple is more beautiful than a painted one, and a live woman is more beautiful than a Venus of stone.

The person who doesn't know how to subjugate will all too quickly feel the other's foot on the nape of his neck.

Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason.

Desire followed the glance, pleasure followed desire

With Ed, I always pushed away the good and only heard the bad. Today, I let in the good.

A shower is the perfect place for crying. No one can hear you if you do it quietly, into a wash-cloth, with the water running.

You're very old, aren't you?""Just as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.

Just because you say something doesn't make it controversial, and it doesn't make you a bad person.

I still have very close ties to Houston and the Astros because that was my first team.

As Christians living in changing times, we must keep three things open: our heads, our hearts, and our Bibles.

I always wanted to be a basketball player.

Grab whom you must. Do what you want.

If you're at the top, then brace for the fall.

On I’ll pass, dragging my huge love behind me. On what feverish night, deliria-ridden, by what Goliaths was I begot – I, so big and by no one needed?