His fierce appreciation of female beauty, the unrelenting desire he felt for their company, the pleasure he both derived and sought to give, had led him in and out of quite a few bedroom doors.

Perhaps all love stories no matter how varied are essentially the same.

And although he recognized that tenderness was not the same as passion, and certainly not equivalent to love, for now it seemed to him a suitable substitute.

Was she happy? She thought – yes, reasonably so. Then again, what was happiness but the vast terrain between ecstasy and agony? Was this too small an ambition?

Once you break someone’s heart, you are forever its master.

Nothing felt better to him than the act of waiting for her. As long as he believed it wasn’t in vain, he was able to justify his presence.

It was almost as if she had willed him into existence, into standing before her at the precise moment she was willing to accommodate him, arriving not a minute too early or too late.

Most people surrendered fairy tale hopes in exchange for cookie cutter lives

...true wisdom is the skill and practice of death.

One of the best-kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so.

Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.

[T]he myth that there was somehow a magic wand in the early 1980s to cure AIDS - a wand that Reagan deliberately refused to wave - is now almost conventional wisdom.

New York is a city where people are ambitious. They want things.

It is good sometimes that the happy of this world should learn, were it only to humble their foolish pride for an instant, that there are higher, wider, and rarer joys than theirs.

History's lesson is to make the most of reform opportunities when they arise because they do not arise often and they do not last long.

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.

Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.

There's no immortality of the soul that you can infer from the Bible.