It was one of those ridiculous arrangements that couples make when they are separating, but before they are divorced - when they still imagine that children and property can be shared with more magnanimity than recrimination.

A personal injustice is stronger motivation than any instinct for philanthropy.

How we love to love things for other people; how we love to have other people love things through our eyes.

You can learn a lot from your lovers, but-for the most part-you get to keep your friends longer, and you learn more from them.

Half my life is an act of revision.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

The lie, of course, is more interesting.