I plead youth as a mitigating circumstance.

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.

I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.

He was weary of the uncertainty of the vicious circle of that eternal war that always found him in the same place, but always older, wearier, even more in the position of not knowing why, or how, or even when.

The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.

Love becomes greater and nobler in calamity.

They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation.