You can talk to me, you know. I'd never give away your secrets.""What's that saying about secrets?" she said lightly. "Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead.

Are you going to put some clothes on?" she blurted out."No. Are you going to take yours off?""No.""Right. Of course not.

Is he always like this?" she said irritably. "Flying by the seat of his pants?""Pretty much, yeah." Oliver grinned. "He's not a planner. But he happens to be the best improviser I've ever known.

Stop. Talking."Her whisper was muffled against his lips, and his answering chuckle was muffled by hers."What would you have me do instead?""For starters? Put your mouth to better use.

A person with taste is merely one who can recognize the greatest beauty in the simplest things.

I am not afraid of the dark. And you shouldn't be either.

Had the crow only fed without cawing she would have had more to eat, and much less of strife and envy to contend with. [To noise abroad our success is to invite envy and competition.]

There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.

Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.

You can do almost anything with soup stock, it's like a strong foundation. When you have the right foundation, everything tastes good.

Omelets are not made without breaking eggs.

None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.

We have not seen great things done in our time except by those who have been considered mean; the rest have failed.