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

When we press the thorn to our chest we know, we understand, and still we do it.

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

Love and hate are cruel, only liking is kind

My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow

Yet there's something ominous about turning sixty-five. Suddenly old age is not a phenomenon which will occur; it has occurred.

Truly God was good, to make man so blind.