Reading is a rendezvous with your soul.

There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.

You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved.

The key to happiness ... is tolerance of those who do not do as you do.

The probability of separate worlds meeting is very small. The lure of it is immense. We send starships. We fall in love.

To me, these days will never end. I am always there, in that room with her, or if not I, the imprint of myself - my fossil-love

Children, I suppose, are always unfinished business: they begin as part of your own body, and continue as separate as another continent.