Those boobs of yours are ubiquitous - like God!

To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it.

Any new possibility that existence acquires, even the least likely, transforms everything about existence.

He was well aware that of the two of three thousand times he had made love (how many times had he made love in his life?) only two or three were really essential and unforgettable. The rest were mere echoes, imitations, repetitions, or reminiscences.

No one can give anyone else the gift of the idyll; only an animal can do so, because only animals were not expelled from Paradise. The love between dog and man is idyllic. It knows no conflicts, no hair-raising scenes; it knows no development.

The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.

In the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable.