You plan to be a challenge, do you?" Juliana smiled angelically. "I agreed to remain, my lord. Not to remain silent.

I had a perfect life in my reach once, and it was a crashing bore. Perfect is too clean, too easy. I don't want perfect any more than I want to be perfect. I want imperfect.

If I am an empress, he is the only man worthy of being my emperor.

You should see what she’s wearing, Callie. It’s velvet. Canary yellow velvet. Turban to match. She looks like a furry banana.

He called me a pie!” she announced, defensively. There was a pause. “Wait. That’s not right.” “A tart?” “Yes! That’s it!

Colleen McCullough taught me that desire is the heart of romance.

Temptation turns you. It makes you into something you never dreamed, it presses you to give up everything you ever loved, it calls you to sell your soul for one, fleeting moment.

I've loved him for a decade. And I had him for one day before I made a complete and utter mess of things. Or he did. I'm still not sure about that.

We are a motley bunch. But we more than make up for it with tenacity." ~ Ralston to Simon

But she had dreamed of being his for too long. He had quite ruined her for a marriage of convenience. She wanted everything from him: his mind, his body, his name and, most of all, his heart.

Men are not nearly as evolved as women are, nor as intelligent, evidently

Our Christianity has become superstitious.

What makes night within us may leave stars.

He was not of an age but for all time!

I believe in facing reality. But only because I don't like turning my back on it.

I don't want a Jennifer Lopez wedding or anything like that. A commitment ceremony would be a nice thing to do.

For some reason, there is a purity to the Swiss Alps - a certain energy - that is very reminiscent of my snowboarding experiences in the Himalayas.

Getting this caliber of musicians together [for "90 Millas" CD in September of 2007] is almost impossible to do again.

No one talks about woman power. The Spice Girls - they're masquerading as little girls. It's repulsive.

[Emacs] is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful.

I'm very nerdy about my music, and I like interrogating people about what they put on playlists.