Plunderous is the palate I gift to you openly I hug the universe of our friendship expanding its outer limit.

The joys of friendship inert the heart and fizzy home bouncing jubilantly with laughter-buttered love.

The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires.

India-Seychelles relations have been characterized by close friendship understanding and cooperation.

I don't need to go onto Facebook and pretend to have friends I've never even met. To my mind that kind of destroys the meaning of the word 'friend.' I take exception to that. Because I value and respect friendship.

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Friendship's the privilege of private men for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

I think romance is friendship and attraction sort of meeting together and that does influence what I'm writing a lot. I try to establish the attraction obviously but I also think it's important to show the characters having actual conversations about things other than their feelings for each other - and to develop their friendship on the page.

Here's a news flash: No soldier gives his life. That's not the way it works. Most soldiers who make a conscious decision to place themselves in harm's way do it to protect their buddies. They do it because of the bonds of friendship - and it goes so much deeper than friendship.

No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.