Our needs cancel each other out, and that's as solid a base for love as any.

Death is a woman, and for that reason she's courageous and just, and never makes distinctions between mortals; she'll crush the ignorant, the arrogant, and the wise alike under her icy foot.

Every country that aspires to become a nation needs its heroes, its eminent civic and moral leaders, and if it doesn't have them, it's our duty to invent them.

A story is like building a chapel; a novel is a cathedral.

Our needs cancel each other out, and that's as solid a base for love as any.

our love for the dead, like a floating iceberg, can only be measured by the depths of our resentments.

Sometimes it's necessary to believe in love, even if it doesn't exist.