I have two rules. One is, never trust a man who smokes a pipe. The other is, never trust a man with shiny shoes.

I suppose like others I have come through fire and sword, love gone wrong, head-on crashes, drunk at sea, and I have listened to the simple sound of water running in tubs and wished to drown

Dying in a a war never stopped wars from happening.

The world had somehow gone too far, and spontaneous kindness could never be so easy.

What a woman wants is a reaction. What a man wants is a woman.

there must be a way. surely there must be a way that we have not yet thought of. who put this brain inside of me? it cries it demands it says that there is a chance. it will not say "no.

we only asked for leopards to guard our thinning dreams.