Only stupid men trying to seem smart need to be with dumb women. Only weak men trying to look strong are attracted to compliant women.

I've had your tears with mine, and you've had mine with yours. I think that's more intimate even than a kiss.

Someday stars will wind down or blow up. Someday death will cover us all like the water of a lake and perhaps nothing will ever come to the surface to show that we were ever there. But we WERE there, and during the time we lived, we were alive. That's the truth - what is, what was, what will be - not what could be, what should have been, what never can be.

In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.

We thought we were the only thinking beings in the universe, until we met you, but never did we dream that thought could arise from the lonely animals who cannot dream each other's dreams

Nobody ever completely means what they say. Even when they think they're telling the truth, there's always something hidden behind their words.

. . . All these readers have placed themselves inside this story, not as spectators, but as participants, and so have looked at the world, not with my eyes only, but also with their own.