Nobody knows much about women, not even Freud, not even women themselves. But it's like electricity: you don't need to know how it works to get a shock on the fingers.

Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.

A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from.

... , listening to the storm outside as it left the city, knowing that I was going to lose her but also knowing that, for a few minutes, we had belonged to one another, and to nobody else.

We think we understand a song's lyrics but what makes us believe in them, or not, is the music

Destiny doesn't do home visits... you have to go for it yourself.

One is never wholly conscious of the greed hidden in one's heart until one hears the sweet sound of silver.