it's amazing what you can get used to.

Every letter was a love letter. Of course, as love letters went, this one could have been better. It was not very promising, for instance, that Madeleine claimed not to want to see him for the next half-century.

You begin always knowing nothing. You remain forever an amateur, a first timer.

So do boys and men announce their intentions. They cover you like a sarcophagus lid. And call it love.

Chunks of his life fell away, so that while we were moving ahead in time, he was moving back.

Children learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French.

Capitalism has resulted in material well-being but spiritual bankruptcy.