The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.

Do not think about sin, he thought. There are enough problems now without sin. Also I have no understanding of it.

Good writing is good conversation, only more so.

Some people, when they hear an echo, think they originated the sound.

I loved her and I loved no one else and we had a lovely magic time while we were alone. I worked well and we made great trips, and I thought we were invulnerable again, and it wasn't until we were out of the mountains in late spring, and back in Paris, that the other thing started again.

Time is the least thing we have.