For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.

He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth.

I want to do everything in the world with you.

Very strong personalities must confine themselves in mutual conversation to very gentle subjects.

And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain.

I talk with the authority of failure - Ernest with the authority of success. We could never sit across the same table again.