You have to wait together - for a week, for a year, for a lifetime, before the final intimate conversation may be attained ... and exhausted. So that ... That in effect was love.

If for nine years I have possessed a goodly apple that is rotten at the core and discover its rottenness only in nine years and six months less four days, isn't it true to say that for nine years I possessed a goodly apple?

Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.

New York is large, glamorous, easy-going, kindly and incurious, but above all it is a crucible - because it is large enough to be incurious.

Ford's last Fifth Queen novel is amazing. The whole cycle is a noble conception.

If you hunch your shoulders too long against a storm your shoulders will grow bowed.

[W]e are almost always in one place with our minds somewhere quite other.