She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality of marriage.

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far end the door was bolted.

As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with aplomb and ran from one end of the keyboard to the other without a stop.

The smooth folds of her dress concealed a tumultuous heart, and her modest lips told nothing of her torment. She was in love.

An infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space.

...those works that don't touch the heart, it seems to me, miss the true aim of Art.

Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.

Financial demands, of all the rough winds that blow upon our love, (are) quite the coldest and the most biting.

And she felt as though she had been there, on that bench, for an eternity. For an infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space.

One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

While you're here, work hard, work smart, and keep an open mind. That's all I ask.

I wrap my heart in yours, placing divulged faith in the whole of your being, wistfully awaiting the trumpet you return.

The ancient Egyptians had a superstitious antipathy to the sea; a superstition nearly of the same kind prevails among the Indians; and the Chinese have never excelled in foreign commerce.

Our problem with desire is that we want too little.

The Sun, Moon and Stars are there to guide us.

The evidence that a person has truly opened their life to Christ is continued fellowship with Christ.

Just as many people flee Hollywood as those who flock to it. Hollywood can be an acquired taste.

It would hurt my feelings if I respected your opinions.

I've never been in parliament as a National, I gave up smoking about the same time [and] I've rid myself of two cancers.