I have only one heart to give and one mind to lose. May I someday find a woman who will take them both.

Oh the wonders of being married. Put a gun in one hand and a woman in the other, I'm never sure who's going to kill me first.

There is nothing like a crisis to define who you are.

Or maybe it's just that beautiful things are so easily broken by the world.' - Jocelyn

Nately had a bad start. He came from a good family.

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose).

For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?

In this new world, this day and forever, then, we are not only Thebans - we are all Stepsons. We are all one Sacred Band. If you will have us. And mine will fight by yours, henceforth, as brothers.

We are stone enemies when the bell rings

Movement is tranquility.

In Zen Buddhism an action is considered good when it brings happiness and well-being to oneself and others, evil when it brings suffering and harm to oneself and others.