You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.

Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.

Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.

Consider incompleteness as a verb.

Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.

No one will ever make necessity not happen.

I started to learn Greek when I was in high school, the last year of high school, by accident, because my teacher knew Greek and she offered to teach me on the lunch hour, so we did it in an informal way, and then I did it at university, and that was the main thing of my life.