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

Men can become twins with age. The past was their common womb; the six months of rain and the six months of sun was the period of their common gestation. They needed only a few words and a few gestures to convey their meaning. They had graduated through the same fevers, they were moved by the same love and contempt.

It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.

One has no talent. I have no talent. It's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.

A man kept his character even when he was insane.

I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.

For a good man fame is always a problem.