They lay silently. She was staring at something across the room. She was making him feel uncomfortable. 'It wouldn't work. It's the attraction of opposites,' he said. We're not opposites.' I don't mean just you and me. Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you they're ready to leave.

Dresscodes are for styleless people.

A light snow, a snow so faint and small-bodied that it seems nothing more than a manifestation of the cold.

Events need their invitation, dissolutions their start.

But that isn't my life. I have said many times I don't want to be considered one who once flew fighters. That's not who I am. I devoted the subsequent 50 years - more - to writing.

One should not believe too strongly in a life which can easily vanish.

It is always an accident that saves us. It is someone we have never seen.