Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.

The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows.

Then he knew that they had rounded the cape of good hope, and he took her large, soft hand again and covered it with forlorn little kisses, first the hard metacarpus, the long, discerning fingers, the diaphanous nails, and then the hieroglyphics of her destiny on her perspiring palm.

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

I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons not always easy to explain.

The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.