You needn't be so scared. Love doesn't end. Just because we don't see each other.

I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.

My passion for Sarah had killed simple lust forever. Never again would I be able to enjoy a woman without love.

Hate is a lack of imagination.

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.

One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about love and pain at second hand.

I had committed myself: without love I'd have to go through the gestures of love.