“A good lover? One percent talent and ninety nine percent hard work.”

“No one plows the field just by thinking about it.”

“Nothing is expensive when you promise.”

“Hide in the mirror. No one will look for you there.”

“When you are a child at home alone, youre afraid someone might come; when you are old and at home alone, youre afraid no one will come.”

“Modesty is fear.”

“If you want romance, fuck a journalist.”

“That's the thing with keeping up appearances, Rose; people will do anything to get one and anything to keep one.”

“I had never seen the end of day and the beginning of the night greet each other. We were caught in the loveliness between the two. A House Like a Lotus”