I think first of the children. What the hell am I supposed to tell them? Then I think about money, the house, all those things no widow will tell you ever crossed her mind.

A woman brings so much more to the world than birth, for she can birth discovery, intelligence, invention, art, just as well as any man.

All I cared about that summer were suntans, beaches, boys and booze.

Don’t worry if you fall, sweet girl. Youth is made for bruises.

She fantasized sometimes too about killing him a little: a little poison in his pudding, a little flick-flick-flick with a fillet knife at his throat.

Her mother always told her, “If he hits you, then you leave, ” but Jack had never hit her, not with his fists.

It wasn’t as if she’d thought it through or anything, how what a person wanted wasn’t always what they needed, and what a person needed might be the last thing they could ever want.

She wasn't chaos. She was more of a slow burn that caught in your heart... and then you had no choice but to engulf her all at once. She was home.

Anyone can life to you face, and you would believe them because you trusted them.

The sweetest song is the beautiful smile of a loving woman.

And each man stands with his face in the light of his own drawn sword. Ready to do what a hero can.

The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.

Negative and pessimistic views of technology have always existed. I can just imagine some pessimistic Sumerian in 3500 B.C. screaming about the evils of the wheel.

Like every book I never wrote, it is by far the best book I have ever written.

It means to educate myself incessantly about the world around me.

I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?

Well, on the one hand the Turks have the legitimate need to defend their national dignity - and this includes being recognized as a part of the west and Europe.