You're better equipped for this world than I am," she said. "I'm always trying to change the world. You know how to live in it.

You're better equipped for this world than I am," she said. "I'm always trying to change the world. You know how to live in it.

Sometimes one gets the feeling that life still thinks it's living in Paris in the '30s.

But do we know how to make love stay?' I can't even think about it. The best I can do is play it day by day.

Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.

People are never perfect, but love can be.

The pervasive brutality in current fiction - the death, disease, dysfunction, depression, dismemberment, drug addiction, dementia, and dreary little dramas of domestic discord - is an obvious example of how language in exploitative, cynical or simply neurotic hands can add to the weariness, the darkness in the world.