Ask any comedian, tennis player, chef. Timing is everything.

Staying alive was what we did to pass the time.

I can't even trust my own imaginary dog. How much lower can a person get?

If you haven't been in a war and are wondering how long it takes to get used to losing everything you think you need or love, I can tell you the answer is no time at all.

The real truth is that the war didn't have much to do with it except that it provided a perfect limbo in which two people who were too young and too related could start kissing without anything or anyone making us stop.

It's a strange sensation to live inside another person's life, to wonder all the time what he is doing, or thinking or feeling.

it was love, of course, though I didn't know it then and Finn was both its subject and object. He accepted love instinctively, without responsibility or conditions, like a wild thing glimpsed through trees.