There are no ambitions noble enough to justify breaking someone's heart.

duty, the most indecent of all obsessions, was only another name for love.

... the most insoluble problems are those which by their very nature can have no space within them for dreams.

I think explicit love scenes are a turn off unless it's the kind you read with one hand.

If you love people, they kill you. If you need people, they kill you. They do I tell you!

There was some justice in his pain

The bird with the thorn in its breast, it follows an immutable law; it is driven by it knows not what to impale itself, and die singing. At the very instant the thorn enters there is no awareness in it of the dying to come; it simply sings and sings until there is not the life left to utter another note. But we, when we put the thorns in our breasts, we know. We understand. And still we do it. Still we do it.