Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex minus reason
Alone, lonely people talk to themselves. In company, they often continue.
Literature gives us a memory of lives we did not lead.
The man in the street is always a stranger.
Without the blessing of cowardice, the world would long since have been torn to bits.
Old photograph: amid the set poses of her family, a young girl smiles and raises her hand a little.