Although I was so big, and so rough in many ways, loved hunting, fighting, horseback riding, I loved the piano above everything else...The mountain man's obsession is to get a glimpse of the sea.

When you're in my arms, I know you're mine. But your feet are so swift, so swift, they carry you as lightly as wings, I never know where, too fast, too fast away from me.

You are that to me, an oasis. You drug me and at the same time you give me strength.

In this instant of danger they realized they were each other's reason for living, and into this instant they threw their whole being.

So many broken promises, each day an aborted wish, a lost object, a misplaced unread book, cluttering the room like an attic with discarded possessions.

And it is that which draws me to you, too, for you are the tropics, you have the sun in you, and the softness and the clarity...

His entire body was pleading for reassurance, and if her whole love was not enough what else could she give him to cure his doubt?

The potion drunk by lovers is prepared by no one but themselves. The potion is the sum of one's whole existence.

Her presence had awakened in him a man suddenly whipped by his earlier ideals, whose lost manhood wanted to assert itself in action.

No moment of charm without long roots in the past, no moment of charm is born on bare soil, a careless accident of beauty, but is the sum of great sorrows, growths, and efforts.

But love, the great narcotic, was the hothouse in which all the selves burst into their fullest bloom...

Their love for me was both a myth and a torture and so I wrecked everything. I hurt them, and I left them hurting.

If you set a clear standard for yourself

In a way I haven't quite stopped mourning the end of my childhood.

Repeat business or behavior can be bribed. Loyalty has to be earned.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Punishments and rewards are two sides of the same coin and that coin doesn't buy you much.

When women participate in politics, the effects ripple out across society... Women are the world's most underused resource.

The wardrobe is always the last piece of the puzzle. When you step into the clothing, that's the final step to figuring out that character.

The biggest fool is the one who thinks he knows it all.

Whether it's playing catch or going to the weight room, you've just got to blend in and introduce yourself as you go along.