Pastoral Resources

I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

When I was 14 years old, I was a huge fan of the Velvets, the Stooges and the Modern Lovers. They are my three favourite bands. I never get sick of 'em.

If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.

The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!

Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.

Victoria was just as much in love with me as I was with her. We could not bear to be apart for a single second. We were like two lovers shipwrecked on a desert island. There was no world outside our love.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

Be brave, young lovers, and follow your star.

Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.

I had previously been in the band the Modern Lovers with Jonathan Richman.

French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow.

Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't.

Mothers and daughters can stay very connected during teenage years. In the middle of your life, you can become very alone. Even though you're connected deeply to other family members, lovers, husbands, friends.

When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract.