nothing in this world was more difficult than love.

Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.

All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.

Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where he no longer was.

Taught him the only thing he had to learn about love: that nobody teaches life anything.

The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin.

Become a better person and be sure to know who you are, before meeting someone new and hoping that person knows who you are