There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the cliffs, where love was more intense because it seemed like a shipwreck.

A man should have two wives: one to love and one to sew on his buttons.

No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had.

There was no sleeper more elegant than she, with her curved body posed for a dance and her hand across her forehead, but there was also no one more ferocious when anyone disturbed the sensuality of her thinking she was still asleep when she no longer was.

They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything.

The only difference today between Liberals and Conservatives is that the Liberals go to mass at five o'clock and the Conservatives at eight.

Why do you insist on talking about what does not exist?