To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of that group.

When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.

Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.

Very little about being a writer is signing an autograph. It's sitting in a room and writing. Getting it out.

What a man can take with a sword, a woman can give by her flesh alone. Life.

Be a man. Discover where you are now, and go on from there, making the best of things. accept your life, and you might survive it. If you hold back from it, insisting this is not your life, not where you are meant to be, life will pass you by. You may not die from such foolishness, but you might as well be dead for all the good your life will do you or anyone else.

I told you I set no limits on my love for you. I don't. Yet I have never expected you to offer me your body. It was the whole of your heart, all for myself, that I sought. Even though I've never had a right to it. For you gave it away ere ever you saw me.