With each reunion (we) had to learn each other all over again. There was always that nervous moment at the airport when I would stand there waiting for him to arrive, wondering, Will I still know him? Will he still know me?

I think I deserve something beautiful.

A glorious failure can sometimes be more life affirming than a cautious win.

To be prosperous and happy in life, Henry, it is simple. Pick one woman, pick it well, and surrender.

Traveling-to-a-place energy and living-in-a-place energy are two fundamentally different energies

This is intimacy: the trading of stories in the dark.

In every possible instance Saint Paul begged Christians to restrain themselves to contain their carnal yearnings to live solitary and sexless lives on earth as it is in heaven. "But if they cannot contain " Paul finally conceded then "let them marry for it is better to marry than to burn." Which is perhaps the most begrudging endorsement of matrimony in human history.