Sometimes only pain can obliterate pain.

The true measure of a man is how he behaves when death is close.

I’d always secretly believed that a love as fierce and true as mine would be rewarded in the end, and now I was being forced to accept the bitter truth.

Men hid behind religion to keep others from seeing how frightened they were, how inept.

What matters isn't what you are, it's who you are, right now, in this moment. What matters are the choices we make. That's what defines us. Nothing else.

The right to choose does not mean the choice is right.

You know you’ve reached the end of a relationship: when your lover now demands that your jokes be funny before they laugh.

I had told him I was searching for my keys, that's what had taken me so long in the car, and I squeezed him tighter, as if I could crush my little lie.

The old are a regular subject for sympathy.

People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person.

I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell.

The risks are 'How country can you go?' rather than 'How rock can you take it?'

A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write.

I wrote three books, I had three greenhouses. It seemed to me to be very satisfactory.