Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.

The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.

Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.

People felt themselves watching him even before they knew that there was anything different about him. His eyes made a person think that he heard things that no one else had ever heard, that he knew things no one had ever guessed before. He did not seem quite human.

There are those who know and those who don't know. And for every ten thousand who don't know there's only one who knows. That's the miracle of all time--the fact that these millions know so much but don't know this.

Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It's standing in love that matters.

The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.