Love had always issued out of the places that hurt the most.

Love's action. It isn't talk and it never has been.

Anyone who knows me well must understand and be sympathetic to my genuine need to be my own greatest hero. It is not a flaw of character; it is a catastrophe.

Cameras are a lifesaver for very shy people who have nowhere else to hide. Behind a lens they can disguise the fact that they have nothing to say to strangers.

I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell.

The water was pure and cold and came out of the Apennines tasting like snow melted in the hands of a pretty girl.

American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them, we die long before women do, with our hearts exploding or our blood pressure rising or our livers eaten away by alcohol because that lake of grief inside us has no outlet. We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.