I don't want to have to earn love by giving up my ability to make decisions that determine how I live.

Life does not always gives us the choices that we want

Some say writing is its own reward. I write for money, but writing for money is not so bad, especially when that writing brings you joy.

Chess is the most intimate game in the world. It's like making love. By the time we finish our first slow game, I will know all his thoughts.

They were partners. She would always make impulsive decisions and he would make slow, reasoned ones. He would always be a little terrified that she would look at him with the scorn he saw in his mother's eyes. And she would always be a little terrified that he would look at her and not love her enough. In short, they were made for each other.

Oh, I have felt lust. And I've indulged lust. But no other woman has turned me into another person.

Where did you go to school?” Piers inquired. “Your all together too literate for a butler. Most bulters I know say things like as you wish, my lord, and leave it at that. Our conversations should be along these lines: Prufrock, bring me a wench and then you would say, as you wish.