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.

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.

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.

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?

Nothing can prevent us from another day and night, and the myth of perpetual flight.

Good leaders are scarce; so I'm following myself.

Better that we should die fighting than be outraged and dishonored... Better to die than to live in slavery.

We have to be vigilant about how the Trump administration may try to divide us from each other.

As we all know, the most effective lies are the ones sprinkled with the most actual truths.

Human concepts, no matter how grand they may appear, have limitations.

I am always writing a potpourri of music. I want to give the world escapism through the wonder of great music and to reach the masses.

I feel like the earth, astonished at fragrance borne in the air, made pregnant with mystery from a drop of rain.

I think that monogamy is artificial. I do not think it's something that comes naturally to us.

When they operated, I told them to put in a Koufax fastball. They did-but it was Mrs. Koufax's.