“The eyes those silent tongues of love.”

“No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.”

“For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.”

“That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.”

“Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.”

“Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.”

“Better to say nothing at all, rather than something you'll regret.”

“...finally her hands, so light, holding his head still and catching all his thoughts and imprisoning them there, in the space that no longer existed between them.”

“She knows what it's like to love someone who cannot love you back. Someone who needs you, holds you, yes, but someone who will never know that love is the knife in your heart.”

“Youre saying you dont want me?Aw hell. No, Im saying this is a bad idea.Youre the king of bad ideas, he reminds me. At least this one ends with both of us feeling good.”

“I heard some stuff recently from Julian Casablancas, and his solo stuff is amazing. If I could write with anyone, it would be him.”

“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.”

“I once knew of a minstrel who bragged of having had a thousand women, one time each. He would never know what I knew, that to have one woman a thousand times, and each time find in her a different ...”

“If a man brags about his sex life he's a stud, but if a woman brags about her sex life she's a slut.”

“God is my provider I brag different.”