I have come to the conclusion that silence and time are the most precious commodities.

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

He wanted to grow old with her, or not grow old at all.

It’s better to live like a flame, to know a man and love him even if he can’t be yours, then never to love at all.

My duchess,” James stated, his eyes sweeping the crowd with the air of a man who has ruled the waves. “She is not a swan, because that would imply she had once been an ugly duckling.

I didn't realize you needed a response. When Hamlet is giving a monologue, he just goes on and on by himself.

Shame can kill the imagination. It's hard to keep writing in the face of cultural derision.