So sadness is a place?' Giovanni asked. 'Sometimes people live there for years,'I said.

Real, sane, mature love—the kind that pays the mortgage year after year and picks up the kids after school—is not based on infatuation but on affection and respect.

I think there's more real in the unreal than there is in the real.

There are always two figures in a marriage, two votes, two conflicting sets of decisions, desires and limitations.

eventually, everything goes away.

Everything was a miracle until we solved it. ... the first man who ever saw a flying fish probably thought he was witnessing a miracle - and the first man who ever described a flying fish was doubtless called a liar.

Beauty is not required. Beauty is accuracy's distraction.