You know every cell in our bodies is completely renewed every seven years, so how can we talk about being the same person? We're absolutely not.

Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.

I can't do it. I've been here before and it's not a room with a view. The only power I have is the negative power of withdrawal. If I don't withdraw I have no power at all. A relationship where one person has no power or negative power, isn't a relationship, it's the bond between master and slave.

I have a head for heights it's true, but no stomach for the depths. Strange then to have plumbed so many.

The free man never thinks of escape.

Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.

As your lover describes you, so you are.