Love is something that hangs up behind the bathroom door and smells of Lysol.

But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

Never fall in love?" "Always," said the count. "I am always in love.

And you treat me wonderfully and keep all your promises.

The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.

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.