The happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening personality of either party has emerged like a jagged rock from the receding tides of lust and curiosity.

To say a thing is natural is to condone it, never to praise it.

To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

I am told that you regret not what you did but what you didn't do; and so that's why I do everything, so as not to have any regrets.

What matters is not whether you put your fork or knife together because you've finished your meal, or something like that. What matters is that you don't offend people, or hurt their feelings by mistake by saying the wrong thing or doing the wrong thing.

I don't think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn't something you've done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed.

The court was not previously aware of the prisoner's many accomplishments. In view of these, we see fit to impose the death penalty.