All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of them.

...falling in love could be achieved in a single word—a glance.

come back, come back to me

Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion, and it is the beginning of morality.

I've never had a moment's doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life.

A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

When its gone, you'll know what a gift love was. you'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.

I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction. It is the beautiful daughter of a rambling, bloated ill-shaven giant (but a giant who's a genius on his best days).

I'm holding back, delaying the information. I'm lingering in the prior moment because it was a time when other outcomes were still possible.

Observing human variety can give pleasure, but so too can human sameness.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating- people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

Die: To stop sinning suddenly.

I'd had 35 professional fights and mentally I was tired of it. I'd sort ot fallen out of love with the sport.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

If writing and publishing a book is like giving birth to a child, then book marketing is like rearing it.

Steady labor with the hands, which engrosses the attention also, is unquestionably the best method of removing palaver and sentimentality out of one's style, both of speaking and writing.

The premises are so delightfully extensive, that two people might live together without ever seeing, hearing or meeting.

The tow pillars of democratic government are the primacy of the law and the budget.

I have had sculptures cast in bronze, silver and aluminium. My drawings are all graphite or pigment ink and gouache on paper.