Find the thing you love, and do it with all your heart, to the absolute best of your ability, no matter what people say.

The fact was I loved my wife to a degree that I found impossible to express, and so rarely did.

but they had also settled into the maddening familiarity of friendship; maddening for her at least.

Well, it's so hard for books to take off. You give years of your life to something that probably won't happen, so when it does, it feels a little unjust.

The future rose up ahead of her, a succession of empty days, each more daunting and unknowable than the one before her.

People change, no use getting sentimental about it. Move on, find someone else.

I love Billy Wilder, and I love the way that his films can be very touching and very moving and very romantic, and at the same time there's always a little cynical undertone, there's always something that undercuts things.