Saints make wonderful grandfathers and lousy husbands.

Know this. I think you could be special if you only thought there was anything special about yourself.

The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.

The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least.

Isn't it a shame military doctors couldn't be as good as military sunglasses?

Every woman I had ever met who walked through the world appraised and classified by an extraordinary physicality had also received the keys to an unbearable solitude. It was the coefficient of their beauty, the price they had to pay.

I do not have any other way of saying it. I think it happens but once and only to the very young when it feels like your skin could ignite at the mere touch of another person. You get to love like that but once.