He craves lasting respect for his serious compositions, although he has not written many of them.
They say that creating the lasting peace Afghanistan craves will require more than teams of Green Berets and Apache helicopters combing distant villages and the country's impenetrable mountains.
Nor does he envy the rival creations of Mike the Rock Balancer, who also craves something lasting.
Because, you see, that's all the craving lasts for -- only a minute".
A lasting improvement in relations with Pakistan would ensure the patient Mr Vajpayee the place in history he seems to crave.
Her last play, Crave, performed at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, was as much a tone poem as a play, which dealt with love, beauty and death.
Like those confirmed homebodies who stayed up half the night devouring "Into Thin Air," the larger audience for "The Last Dive" craves suspenseful tales in which foolish mistakes or just plain bad luck leads to hairbreadth escapes or something far, far worse.
Professor Andrade said: "Episodes of craving normally only last a few minutes, during which time an individual is visualising what they want and the reward it will bring.
Mr Clinton has given them enough mendacious slickness to last a lifetime; they now crave "authenticity" and, if possible, heroism.
With Mitt Romney's win yesterday in Michigan producing three different winners in the first three contested states, the Republican race appears so up for grabs at the moment that it, too, could last beyond Feb. 5. Republicans crave an orderly process and like to coalesce around a front-runner.
One chew lasts about an hour and a half, he said, and "it stops the craving for cigarettes".
