You make what seems a simple choice: choose a man or a job or a neighborhood- and what you have chosen is not a man or a job or a neighborhood, but a life.

Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.

The emotion, the ecstasy of love, we all want, but God spare us the responsibility.

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

A good time for laughing is when you can.

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.