The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.

Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality.

I think just the opposite is true: love is an ideology for eternal militants, and the more misfortunes life tries to burden us with, the more essential love becomes.

She let him finish, scratching his head with the tips of her fingers, and without his having revealed that he was weeping from love, she recognized immediately the oldest sobs in the history of man.

You have to have spent the night at sea, sitting in a life raft and looking at your watch, to know that the night is immeasurably longer than the day.