I want you alone, " he whispered, gliding a hand around her hip, "on a slow boat to China. Days together, nights... rocking on the waves.

He wished he was doing much more than kissing the back of her silky hand, though throwing her on the bar and devouring her like a man-eater wasn't a wise option.But... he was only human.

I don't spill my drinks on just any man, you know." She touched his cheek. "only dashing shark lovers with pantydropping accents.

Why was life so unfair that the one guy she felt uncontrollable chemistry with ---even when they weren't even touching ---was the only guy she had to keep her hands off?

Think of it this way, " he rubbed a fist under his square jaw, "If we hadn't been on the same flight or at the same hotel, you would've had no one to spill your drinks on.

Be careful not to appear obsessively intellectual. When intelligence fills up, it overflows a parody.

One more year and I will be closer to wherever I'm going.

Death swallows death.

Let's make just a few more steps and secure success forever.

To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub, For in this sleep of death what dreams may come...

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

My own special relationship with America began at an early age. My father, a fellow journalist, named me after Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Unacceptable, maybe. But not unthinkable. Nothing's unthinkable once somebody's thought it.

Singers, musicians, and songwriters don't want to use the word "acting" because we want it to be more real than that - we want it to come from us: naturally, truly, really.