You might have been paid back enough to suit you" I said, "but I don't know if you've been paid back enough to suit me.

If it pleases you and you can write at all, it's gonna please somebody else.

I don't like having feelings," Eric said coldly, and he left. That was a tough exit line to top.

No matter what happens in public—no matter what—don’t doubt that I love you and care about your welfare . . . as much as I am able.

you have to play it out sometimes.

The god entered some women so completely that they became immortal, or very close to it. Bacchus was the god of the grape, of course, so bars are very interesting to maenads. In fact, so interesting that they don't like other creatures of darkness becoming involved. Maenads consider that the violence sparked by the consumption of alcohol belongs to them; that's what they feed off, now that no one formally worships their god. And they are attracted to pride.

You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.