Novelist quotes

Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.

The more you judge, the less you love.

Faith is not a thing which one "loses," we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

I am mentally bifocal.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.

For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life. God keep thee! Push not off from that isle, thou canst never return!

He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.

All my pupils are the creme de la creme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.