the smell of lilacs crept poignantly into the room like a remembered spring.

The day will probably come when you can tell everything about a person from his dreams except his age and weight.

There is no such thing as an ex-exhibitionist.

The sun was shining like a congratulation.

Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don't read the lines.

Any good marriage involves a certain amount of play-acting.

Sanity is a matter of culture and convention. If it's a crazy culture you live in, then you have to be irrational to want to conform. A completely rational person would recognize that the culture was crazy and refuse to conform. But by not conforming, he is the one who would be judged crazy by that particular society.