In this instant of danger they realized they were each other's reason for living, and into this instant they threw their whole being.

When you're in my arms, I know you're mine. But your feet are so swift, so swift, they carry you as lightly as wings, I never know where, too fast, too fast away from me.

You are that to me, an oasis. You drug me and at the same time you give me strength.

So many broken promises, each day an aborted wish, a lost object, a misplaced unread book, cluttering the room like an attic with discarded possessions.

And it is that which draws me to you, too, for you are the tropics, you have the sun in you, and the softness and the clarity...

His entire body was pleading for reassurance, and if her whole love was not enough what else could she give him to cure his doubt?

The potion drunk by lovers is prepared by no one but themselves. The potion is the sum of one's whole existence.

Her presence had awakened in him a man suddenly whipped by his earlier ideals, whose lost manhood wanted to assert itself in action.

No moment of charm without long roots in the past, no moment of charm is born on bare soil, a careless accident of beauty, but is the sum of great sorrows, growths, and efforts.

But love, the great narcotic, was the hothouse in which all the selves burst into their fullest bloom...

Men from the mountains always dream of the sea, and above all things I love to travel.

No person may enjoy outstanding success without good health.

What's done, is done

Raise your thoughts. Ennoble your desires. Better your actions. Elevate your life.

Faith fertilizes dreams.

Plastic flowers last for hours

Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God.

Get yourself to a vantage point of seclusion and view the world with your eyes alone. Think of the infinite spaces of the skies and the world beneath.

Prior to September 11, we thought the world beyond our shores was one world of risk and the world in our continent was another world of risk

Knavery is the best defense against a knave.

I suppose the short chapters and differing narrative points of view are quite "cinematic" devices, which came very naturally to me.