Desire is in men a hunger, in women only an appetite.
As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it.
Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.
Tragedy isn't getting something, or failing to get it; it's losing something you already have.
Acedia is not in every dictionary; just in every heart.
There's no way to repay a mother's love, or lack of it.