If men gave birth, they'd be less inconsiderate.

Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nastiness, and fabulous flashes of glory in the conjugal conspiracy. It was time when they both loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity. Life would still present them with other moral trials, of course, but that no longer mattered: they were on the other shore.

She searched the truth with an anguish almost as great as her terrible fear of finding it .

I want the same one, the way she always is, without failures, without fights, without bad memories.

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.

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

Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.