It was the year they fell into devastating love. Neither one could do anything except think about the other, dream about the other, and wait for letters with the same impatience they felt when they answered them.

The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin.

Love is not a condition of the spirit but a sign of the zodiac.

If you love something - let. If it is yours - it will come back. I love you not because of who you are, but for who I am when I'm with you.

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

It's much more important to write than to be written about.

Seeing him like this, dressed just for her in so patent a manner, she could not hold back the fiery blush that rose to her face. She was embarrassed when she greeted him, and he was more embarrassed by her embarrassment. The knowledge that they were behaving as if they were sweethearts was even more embarrassing, and the knowledge that they were both embarrassed embarrassed them so much that Captain Samaritano noticed it with a tremor of compassion.