You lose the world for a glance? Of course you do. That is what the world is for: to lose under the right circunstances.
Julian BarnesThe better you know someone, the less well you often see them (and the less well they can therefore be transferred into fiction). They may be so close as to be out of focus, and there is no operating novelist to dispel the blur.
Julian BarnesAll bad things are exaggerated in the middle of the night. When you lie awake, you only think of bad things.
Julian Barnes