Be calm. God awaits you at the door.

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.

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.

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

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

They will find whatever button will make you dance, and dance you will, no matter how hideous the tune.

You have been created in order that you might make a difference. You have within you the power to change the world.

They go'n try to stop you, they go'n try. Notice how I said true. We ain't never stopping.

Half the time I pick up a book, that's what I'm trying to get.

Mc Donalds he thought. There's no longer any such thing as a Mc Donalds hamburger. He passed out. When he came around seconds later he found he was sobbing for his mother.

At the United Nations, a lynch mob for Israel is always just a moment away.

Failures are infinitely more instructive than successes.

If only Vivien Leigh had stayed in England, that part would have been mine.

Ya know it was a toss-up whether I go in for diamonds or sing in the choir. The choir lost.

Love: I recognize the emotion for what it is, an irrational self-destructive impulse, which is disguised as joy.