This was the simple happiness of complete harmony with her surroundings, the happiness that asks for nothing, that just accepts, just breathes, just is.

How they had dreamed together, he and she... how they had planned, and laughed, and loved. They had lived for a while in the very heart of poetry.

He had no idea that he never went out of the house without her blessing going with him too, hovering, like a little echo of finished love, round that once dear head

Always being there was the essential secret for a wife.

Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul like you.

No, I like you alive and warm and wiggling.

It wasn't a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.

I've made six or seven good films. The others, not so good.

Obama a ‘light-skinned’ African-American ‘with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.

My voyage was never a well-conceived plan, nor will it ever be. I have made it up as I went along.

Your strength lies in your Hope. Your salvation lies in your Faith.

He was probably selfish in the sack. Probably selfish and greedy and...unsophisticated. And hung like a horse.

How powerful social mores are! Only a spider's web lies across the volcano, yet it refrains from erupting.

If a man is running down the street with everything you own, you won't let him get away. That's tackling.