The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.

Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.

The wider the author's arsenal of tools and the better technically equipped the storyteller is, the better the tale will be.

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

God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil.

The only use for military service is that it reveals the number of morons in the population," he would remark. "And that can be discovered in the first two weeks; there's no need for two years. Army, Marriage, the Church and Banking: the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Yes, go on, laugh.

... , 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.