“She’s a smart woman. I love that. Intelligence is a wonderful and powerful aphrodisiac. To me, it enhances beauty, makes an ordinary woman look like a movie star.”

“i can become a new woman every day until i like the woman i become, then i can become her for a while, if not forever!”

“Ownership, even in love, is an illusion. No woman owned any man and no man owned any woman.”

“intelligence is always intimidating to those who aren't!”

“People know your tragedies and they treat you like you’re not human. Like you’re a three-headed goat. A monster from some other planet. They keep reminding you of your pain. You see how they look at me? They’re stuck on that person I used to be. They can’t see that old life as just a moment in time that I’ve moved on from. It was a horrible life.”

“Every man kills the things that he loves. Some with a look, some with flattery, the coward with a kiss.”

“beauty is the currency of betrayal!”