Also the fact that he's a guy. A girl screws around like Lotto and she's like diseased. Untouchable. But a guy can stick it to a million places and everyone just thinks he's doing what boys do.

Perhaps living in fear can drive all devils out of a person.

I like a bit of spunk in a lady

she'd played mother and wives. Women in narratives were always defined by their relations.

Doomed people celebrate peace with sky bombs.

It was mathematical, marriage. Not, as one might expect, additional. It was exponential.

Mathilde and Lotto held hands in the taxi going to brunch, communicating, not speaking.

What she did not tell him balanced neatly with what she did.

When your family dismisses you, like Lotto's did, you create your own family

Don't they understand what fiction is?

He got drunk as usual, but instead of drifting to sleep, he stayed up, and at a white heat, wrote what had been sitting on his heart for decades.

If you find a problem, don’t complain about it. To find the solution, be curious and wise.

Life is like a black hole. You don't know what lies ahead. You can't ever turn back. All you can do is move forward.

How many years went by unnoticed, unembraced?

You are safe with me." "I am not at all safe, with you. But I have no desire to be elsewhere.

America will be a prosperous, generous, and inclusive society.

--you wouldn't have hurt me like this for nothing. So what have I done? How have I wronged you? Tell me.

I like American history, so I was aware of the participants and a lot of it.

What they were giving me seemed incredibly real to me, so I'd react to it in a very real way. That was frightening for me, especially because of the subject.

Whenever we hear an opinion and believe it, we make an agreement, and it becomes part of our belief system.

I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.