You have a beautiful laugh. Like the promise of tomorrow.

My soul sees its equal in you.

You honestly expect me to breathe in a world without air?

Love is—a shade of what I feel.

Get up, Shahrzad al-Khayzuran. You kneel before no one. Least of all me.

Love is a force unto itself, sayyidi. For love, people consider the unthinkable...and often achieve the impossible. I would not sneer at its power.

There is no one I would rather see the sunrise with than you.

The more a person pushes others away, the clearer it becomes he is in need of love the most.

In what world did you think you could get away with this?" Jalal seethed. "To my cousin? To my family?" His gleaming hilt continued its punishing onslaught.

For his children, he would move mountains.

For the wonder of a first love can never be matched.

It seemed silly to wash one day when I would only have to wash again the next.It made me tired just to think of it.

When Nietszche says, "A new commandment I give to you, be hard" he is really saying, "A new commandment I give to you, be dead." Sensibility is the definition oflife.

Simulated ardor is a shameful form of lying.

I'm the kind of person who does not want to be anywhere that I'm not wanted.

I'm allergic to chemicals in food so I eat only organic foods.

When mountains fall, I'll stand, By the power of Your hand.

We had all been feeling this, about the Buffy/Riley relationship. It never had the fire that Buffy/Angel did. It wasn't really meant to.

When the reviews are bad I tell my staff that they can join me as I cry all the way to the bank.

To me, one of the main things that a director does is create the tone of his movie.

I found all my reading and writing informed my music in subtle ways. Ravedeath came out of studying the pipe organ, going to New Jersey - the world's loudest and biggest pipe organ.