The smarter you are, the more reasons you have to be miserable.

I never take advice, good or bad. That would only encourage more of it.

No. But I understand her. Life makes people what they are.

This is how we court girls in America. We grab them and kiss them. And if they don't like it, we do it again, harder and longer, until they surrender. It saves us hours of witty repartee.

They (mothers-in-law) never leave when they say they will. When my mother-in-law visits, the mice throw themselves at the cat, begging to be eaten.

That is kind of you, my lord. But I will never dance with you.' Which, of course, made it the goal of Leo's life.

It was a kiss to level mountains and shake stars from the sky. It was a kiss to make angels faint and demons weep...a passionate, demanding, soul-searing kiss that nearly knocked the earth off its axis.