we had made love without love, half-dressed most of the time and always in the dark so we could imagine ourselves as better than we were.

Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses.

and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.

Nobody is worth crying for, and those that are worth it will not make you cry.

Fame invades your private life. It takes away from the time that you spend with friends, and the time that you can work. It tends to isolate you from the real world.

Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.

When I stand and contemplate my fate and see the path along which you have led me, I reach my end, for artless I surrendered to one who is my undoing and my end.