This is the normal way with birthdays, see? Amazingly enough, they arrive on the same day, every year.

Cleverness is like rouge - liberal application makes a woman look common and desperate. Wit is knowing how to apply it.

He couldn’t compare a woman to a torrentially beautiful monsoon, and then look surprised that he’d gotten wet.

Certainty becomes you.

Is it truly so unfathomable, that an imperfect girl might be perfectly loved?

Oh no. Don't smile. You'll kill me. I stop breathing when you smile.

Don’t. Don’t play that game.” His brow pressed to hers. “When I heard you cry out . . . it was like a saber to the gut. I wanted to die.

Forgive me, Your Grace. Are you suggesting a woman is some sort of … piece of fruit to you? One squeeze, and you know if she’s ripe?

A man might engage in flirtation with distinterest, even disdain. But he never teases without affection.

What is the world coming to, with these modern women? A man can't tell them what to do.

The Blushing Pansy," his cousin read aloud, in a tone of abject horror. "Tea shop and confectionery." Bram swore. This was going to be ugly.

An honorable man has a heart for the poor and vulnerable in our society.

Stop thinking, and end your problems.

She is brave and strong and broken all at once. As she speaks it is as if her existence is no longer real to her in itself, more like a living epitaph to a life that was.

Sometimes with 'The New Yorker,' they have grammar rules that just don't feel right in my mouth.

One thing I loved about New Zealand was the indoor/outdoor lifestyle of the place.

It is obviously quite difficult to be no longer loved when we are still in love, but it is incomparably more painful to be loved when we ourselves no longer love.

Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.

Burning natural gas will not save us from climate change. It's the same as burning any other carbon-based fuel.

There are three dimensions of time, two of which contain happier days.

I don't think it's the court's perceived role to do some explaining of a political nature.