One had to live a long time to know a man's true nature.

But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.

Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.

He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.

and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.

Be calm. God awaits you at the door.

he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips…her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins.

wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.

In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory.

One could be happy not only without love, but despite it.

Dr Urbino did not agree: in his opinion a Liberal president was exactly the same as a Conservative president, but not as well dressed.

If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.

The gods hate those who plan badly, and help those with good friends, good swords, and good sense.

Maybe you are a memory who is supposed to live forever.

All the things I’ve done to my body, I’ve done out of love.

Remember kids, I have life insurance.

The opposite of love is not hate, its apathy, when u simply don't bother about that person!

If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.

It's become my brand in a way you know, speaking the truth even though it was not politically correct.

Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the Washington Post.

To reason with goverments, as they have existed for ages, is to argue with brutes. It is only from the nations themselves that reforms can be expected