I wouldn't dignify it with the name immoral.

Olga was better, in the sun, where he could see every pore in her skin. Get closer. Feel her next to him. It was all he wanted in the world. It was the last thing in the world that he could do.

…he’d assumed their relationship would go on forever. It was going on now, but in another way, like the rearrangement of the stars, which were all still in the sky, just burning in unexpected places.

We just move on, don’t we, with traitors still amongst us? But there was one thought that wouldn’t go away. If I loved him, I would forgive him.

You know what people are doing on the other side of the world, what’s happening on another planet, but not what’s going on inside the person next to you.

Were the stars against him? A woman's fingers are quicker in the sky and shine more brightly.

We put our flags in soil when we arrive, as if it now belongs to us and we know where we are.

The world is indeed a cold, hard stone.

The emotion was the most important thing.

One of the things that makes me who I am is the loyalty I have to people I hold close to my heart.

During high school I worked in a retirement home. I spent many wonderful hours hearing from service men and their widows about WWI.

If you want something, give it

I'm a New Yorker, you know.

I don't want you fellows sitting around asking me what to do. I want you to tell me what to do.

The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.

You know why I feel older? I went to buy sexy underwear and they automatically gift wrapped it.

Intent on one great love, perfect, Requited and for ever, I missed love's everywhere Small presence, thousand-guised.

Consciousness is the greatest movie-maker in the whole world.

Confidence is everything. If you start second guessing yourself, you're bound to run into more bad outings