I didn't marry you because you were perfect. I didn't even marry you because I loved you. I married you because you gave me a promise. That promise made up for your faults. And the promise I gave you made up for mine. Two imperfect people got married and it was the promise that made the marriage. And when our children were growing up, it wasn't a house that protected them; and it wasn't our love that protected them--it was that promise.

If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.

Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.

She had never realized any love save love as passion. Such love, though it expends itself in generosity and thoughtfulness, though it give birth to visions and to great poetry, remains among the sharpest expressions of self-interest. Not until it has passed though a long servitude, though its own self-hatred, though mockery, though great doubts, can it take its place among the loyalties. Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud with the singing of these constellations.

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.