Here's an idea: let's get over ourselves, buy a cherry pie, and go fall in love with life.

The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being.

The party in Alobar’s head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged.

Well, there's one thing to be said for money. It can make you rich.

I would only read the novels that people classify as 'beach books' if I were being held prisoner and the only alternative was the 'Book of Mormon.'

…he glanced over his shoulder at her, regarding her, as he often did before they made love, as if she were a lost continent about to be rediscovered.

There's birth, there's death, and in between there's maintenance.