“Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.”

“There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.”

“Temperance is the control of all the functions of our bodies. The man who refuses liquor goes in for apple pie and develops a paunch is no ethical leader for me.”

“If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave.”

“There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lovers whisper, irresistiblemagic to make the sanest man go mad.”

“Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying together in the bed of love, we may then have faith and trust in each other.”

“The great writings interact with one another. They cannot be read in isolation..”

“The main danger is that of supposing that the thing to do is get a mind on the scale of Thomas (Aquinas)s into your head, a task of compression that will be achieved only at your heads peril. The o...”

“It is commonly said to my little friend Legion: Read the great writers for style. But I say to him: Read the great dead masters for ideas. Devour them, Fletcherize them, digest, assimilate, make th...”

“Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.”

“Oh, Sweetie. No one ever gets through their TBR list. For every book you finish, you'll add five more. That's just the way it works.”

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”