The best thing to do if you start thinking such things (falling in love) is to lie down and wait for it to pass. It always does.

If we don't risk it all, we may as well not write at all.

She had the underwear of a thirteen-year-old, as well, he thought. He glanced back at her. But the shoes of a courtesan.

She froze. He reached up and took her hand in his, pulling the knife away, making her drop it on the floor. "Show me how much you hate me," he whispered against her mouth. "Prove it to me.

I lied. I do that, you know, when it suits me. I would have thought you'd realized that by now.

After all, if spinster chaperons required their own spinster chaperons there simply wouldn't be enough to go around.

If I am ever in the position where I wish to seduce someone I will simply assure her it’s better than rats.

You tell anyone that I cried, and I'll cut your liver out." "Do you even know where a human liver resides?"[...] "Yes," she said, and punched him in it.

She tried to allow herself only one biting remark an hour, and she had already overstepped her allowance.

If you lust after someone and have an absurd and overwhelming need to protect them, then the best way to deal with the situation is to marry the person.

Jesus, woman!" he snapped. "When did we have to become Romeo and Juliet?

It felt like this was never going to end. The world wasn't going to stop crashing down until there was nothing left of me but dust.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

I've never seen the Osbournes, I've never seen Paris Hilton. I'd rather read than watch reality TV. I'd rather live life than watch somebody else living it.

I don't care if my jokes are appropriate for a kid.

It's all false pressure; you put the heat on yourself, you get it from the networks and record companies and movie studios. You put more pressure on yourself to make everything that much harder.

Simply making decisions, one after another, can be a form of art.

The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.

Popularity is totally overrated.

If you can't stand yourself, neither can anybody else!

Basically, I feel to spend the rest of my life doing retreat.