Society was nothing but a long, dull dinner party conversation in which one was forced to speak to one's partner on both the left and the right.

The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly, is always the love that is not returned.

She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room.

But we cannot unbraid the story of another person’s life and take out all the parts that don’t suit our purposes and put forth only the ones that do.

There are, of course, people who didn't create the trouble they're in, but lots of them do.

This is my job, my livelihood: the health and the well-being of the publishing industry. We're all responsible for this.

It is said the sesta is one of the only gifts the Europeans brought to South America, but I imagine the Brazilians could have figured out how to sleep in the afternoon without having to endure centuries of murder and enslavement.