Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk.

The only thing worse than bad health is a bad name.

but he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude.

This was his world, he said to himself, the sad, oppressive world that God had provided for him, and he was responsible to it.

He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.

There had never been a death so foretold.

Dr Urbino did not agree: in his opinion a Liberal president was exactly the same as a Conservative president, but not as well dressed.