The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.

Our love of each other was like two long shadows kissing without hope of reality.

What a mystery this is, desire. The love sickness, the sensitivity, the obsession, the flutter of the heart, the ebb and flow of the blood. There is no drug and no alcohol to equal it.

Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend for safekeeping, in case of his death. He had ridden only a few miles away when his friend, riding hard, caught up with him, saying 'You gave me the wrong key!

If a person continues to see only giants, it means he is still seeing the world through the eyes of a child. I have a feeling that man's fear of woman comes from having first seen her as the mother, creator of men.

I spell 'god' with a small 'g' because I do not believe in him, but I love to swear by him.