...seeking refuge from a world in which huge and mysterious forces were let loose to destruction.

I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem.

I want to hold you like a kitten in my shirt, and still I want to spread your thighs and plow ye like a rotting bull. I dinna understand myself.

But I talk to you as I talk to my own soul, " he said, turning me to face him. He reached up and cupped my cheek, fingers light on my temple."And, Sassenach, " he whispered, "your face is my heart.

It's always better if they see. Then they don't imagine things. So I didn't imagine, I remembered.

Alive, and one. We are one, and while we love, death will never touch us. 'The grave's a fine and private place/ but none, I think, do there embrace.

The way to be safe is never to be secure.

The average person is full of artificial desires, desires that have been suggested by what other people possess or require.

I like to go see a ball game. I'll have seven, eight, nine - 10 beers, and the second inning will roll around, and I gotta go.

People praise us behind our backs, but we hear them not; few before our faces, and who is not suspicious of the truth of such praise?

I wanted to write it long before I wrote Every Night, Josephine! I'd been thinking about it a long time.

And old affront will stir the heart Through years of rankling pain.

It's taken me 30 years to get this way, and I don't intend to let go. I work hard, but I play hard, too, and that's the one part of me that nobody sees. But I intend to be around for a long time yet.

Remember that no matter where I am or what I'm doing I've got a special place inside me that's all for you. It's been there since the day we met.

I'm scared of rehearsals, I'm scared of doing all this because I don't feel like I'm an actress.

The sword of Mahomet, and the Coran, are the most stubborn enemies of Civilisation, Liberty, and Truth, which the world has yet known.