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“I have a lust for diamonds,' said Taylor, 'that's almost like a disease.”
― Roger Lewis, Erotic Vagrancy: Everything about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor

“Their erotic relationship - their need too be transported by irresistible powers, which disturb and arouse - had an intensity and force, excitement and fervour.”
― Roger Lewis, Erotic Vagrancy: Everything about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor

“As the unreality of Hollywood only made him aware of his agitation and hollowness, he was drawn back sentimentally to his birth place, or tot he idea of his birthplace, and he drank himself to death when he saw only wasted opportunities: 'I loved my silly image as the besotted Welsh genius, dying in his own vomit in the gutter,' he said unconvincingly.”
― Roger Lewis, Erotic Vagrancy: Everything about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor

“The burtons were under a net, shackled by desire; absorbed by each other, yes, by the fantasy and potency and anticipation of each other - but there was also a social and moral trespass, Holy dread, as Taylor knew well enough when she wrote in her memoirs, of her initial meeting with Burton, and its aftermath, 'I think it was a little like damnation to everybody.”
― Roger Lewis, Erotic Vagrancy: Everything about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor