For a week I did not take off my mechanic's coverall day or night I did not bathe or shave or brush my teeth because love taught me too late that you groom yourself for someone you dress and perfume yourself for someone and I'd never had anyone to do that for.

In that way the long-awaited visit, for which both had prepared questions and had even anticipated answers, was once more the usual everyday conversation.

More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude.

She likes to try everything, out of curiosity, but she'll be sorry if she isn't guided by her heart.

wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.

his examination revealed that he had no fever, no pain anywhere, and that his only concrete feeling was an urgent desire to die. All that was needed was shrewd questioning...to conclude once again that the symptoms of love were the same as those of cholera.

Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.