We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces on the edges of print.

You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.

Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

You can think clearly only with your clothes on.

We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?

Fatigue is here, in my body, in my legs and eyes. That is what gets you in the end. Faith is only a word, embroidered.

Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.

By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being.

How furious she must be, now that she's been taken at her word.

To want is to have a weakness.

Reality is never clear, said Boris. It's never final. You can always change it or see it a different way.

...children are at heart selfish, and reasonably so, for they are programmed for survival.

We all struggle in some way or another. So it's on us to work hard, and strive towards a better and healthy life.

i can't prove this but i can't prove you're a good person though i suspect you're a good person.

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

When you're on a film and you're doubting something, it's usually because you don't think the audience is going to like it.

With women the best aphrodisiac is words.

The desert has a subtle and a cruel charm. She destroys while she enthralls.

The Lord is in the details of our lives.