There's no greater misfortune than dying alone.

When I wake up," he said, "remind me that I'm going to marry her.

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.

You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.

It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.

Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.

The people of the United States are one of the people I most admire in the world. The only thing I don't understand is why a country that manages to do so well cannot do better in choosing its president.