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

Over the years they both reached the same wise conclusion by different paths: it was not possible to live together in any other way, or love in any other way, and nothing in this world was more difficult than love.

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.

Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping of their wings stirred up the stagnant time inside, and at dawn on Monday the city awoke out of its lethargy of centuries with the warm, soft breeze of a great man dead and rotting grandeur.

As I kissed her the heat of her body increased, and it exhaled a wild, untamed fragrance.

I'll never fall in love again... it's like having two souls at the same time.

Old people, with other old people, are not so old.