Lover's words: “How beautiful you are, now that you love me.”

Words can bruise and break hearts, and minds as well. There are no black and blue marks, no broken bones to put in plaster casts, and therefore no prison bars for the offender.

Timing: The alpha and omega of aerialists, jugglers, actors, diplomats, publicists, generals, prizefighters, revolutionists, financiers, dictators, lovers.

It's the friend you call up at four o'clock in the morning that really matters.

[On Las Vegas:] I love that town. No clocks. No locks. No restrictions.

Logic is the key to an all-inclusive spiritual well-being.

In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English?