I can't think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.

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

Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.

Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened.

Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.

Her first reaction was one of hope, because his eyes were open and shining with a radiant light she had never seen there before. She prayed to God to give him at least a moment so that he would not go without knowing how much she had love him despite all their doubts, and she felt an irresistible longing to begin life with him over again so that they could say what they had left unsaid and do everything right that they had done badly in the past. But she had to give in to the intransigence of death. (Love in the Time of Cholera)

That's maybe the reason he does so many things so that he will not have to think .