he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips…her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins.

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.

Be calm. God awaits you at the door.

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.

So, Americans, then. Self-appointed vigilante defenders of the world, kind of like Superman, if Superman was retarded and only fought crime when he felt like it.

We're born to be happy, all of us.

If you want a thing done - go. If not - send.

The last Bollywood movie I watched was 3 Idiots that featured Aamir Khan in it. It was impressive!

Remember that the successful marriage depends on two things: (1) finding the right person and (2) being the right person.

Try first thyself, and after call in God; For to the worker God himself lends aid.

Every day declare for yourself what you want in life. Declare it as though you have it!

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.

If it's a new planet, sign me up. I'm tired of driving around the block, boldly going where hundreds have gone before in orbit around earth-give me a place to go and I'll go.

I like playing flawed characters, people who aren't perfect.