“One might have supposed that the true act of love was to lie together and talk.”

John Reviews Twilight and New Moon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkoBoF9FDXg <br class="br">YouTube

Homecoming saga, The Call Of Earth (1992)

An Audience With Billy - 1985

Source: Wizard's First Rule

Three Worlds, Three Summers — But Not the Summer Just Past (1949).
Context: One might think, to hear some people talk, that this had been a particularly fine summer. From their point of view, I suppose, it has. They have rushed about the lakes in noisy little boats; they have permitted themselves to be dragged behind other little boats, standing more or less upright on ironing boards; they have immersed themselves in lakes into which countless summer cottage privies drain; they have laboriously pursued summer flirtations, and some of them have achieved gritty conquests on the sands; they have sat in hot little boats waiting to catch fish which they have then had to eat; they have passed many hours changing their skins from pinkish-drab to brown, erroneously believing that they are "storing up sunshine" against the winter months; they have motored penitential distances; they have taken thousands of feet of film of people whose names they will not be able to remember in November. They have amused themselves after their fashion, and I have no quarrel with them.

Source: Mindswap (1966), Chapter 8 (p. 44)

As quoted in &quot;Cary Grant is puzzled because you have No Time for Laughs&quot; by Robert Ottaway in Picturegoer magazine;; (4 January 1958) http://freespace.virgin.net/donna.moore/Cary_grant_articles5.htm

Il est du véritable amour comme de l'apparition des esprits: tout le monde en parle, mais peu de gens en ont vu.
Variant translation: With true love it's like with the appearance of ghosts: everyone talks about it but few have seen it.
Maxim 76.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)

"Three Poems of the Atomic Bomb: Dirge for the New Sunrise"
The Canticle of the Rose (1949)