You must not be angry with me. You must think of me as an incomplete person.
You marry to continue the conversation.
Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less and suffer the less?
With a lover, a wife, when you find the worst - be it infidelity or lack of love, madness or the suicidal spark - you are almost relieved. Life is as I thought it was; shall we now celebrate this disa...
Why do you think this great nation of ours loves the Royal Family? Gun Law. If we didn't have it, you'd be asking the opposite question.
Who was it said that memory is what we thought we’d forgotten?
Whereas most of us, I suspect, do the opposite: we make an instinctive decision, then build up an infrastructure of reasoning to justify it. And call the result common sense. Did I think Adrian’s acti...
When people say, ‘She’s a good-looking woman,’ they usually mean, ‘She used to be a good-looking woman.’ But when I say that about Margaret, I mean it. She thinks – she knows – that she’s changed, and...
We live in time, it bounds us and defines us, and time is supposed to measure history, isn't it? But if we can't understand time, can't grasp its mysteries of pace and progress, what chance do we have...
Was this their exact exchange? Almost certainly not. Still, it is my best memory of their exchange.
Voleo bih da je život kao bankarstvo', rekao sam. 'Ne mislim doslovno. Ima tu vrlo komplikovanih stvari. Ali, na kraju sve shvatiš ako se samo potrudiš. Ili uvek postoji negde neko ko se razume, pa ma...
Vivimos como si la memoria fuese una consigna de equipajes bien construida y atendida por un personal eficiente.
Unul dintre lucrurile pe care le învăţase în viaţă, şi pe care spera că se va putea bizui, era că o durere intensă alungă una mai puţin intensă. O întindere musculară dispare în înfruntarea cu durerea...
Until I met Annick I’d always been certain that the edgy cynicism and disbelief in which I dealt, plus a cowed trust in the word of any imaginative writer, were the only tools for the painful, wrenchi...
Try as I could -which wasn't very hard- I rarely ended up fantasising a markedly different life from the one that has been mine. I don't this is complacency; it's more likely a lack of imagination, or...
Truths about writing can be framed before you’ve published a word; truths about life can be framed only when it’s too late to make any difference.
Tomis dienomis jautėmės taip, lyg būtume laikomi kokiame garde ir lauktume dienos, kai mus išleis į gyvenimą. Ir kai ta diena atėjo, mūsų gyvenimas - ir pats laikas įgavo pagreitį. Ar mums atėjo į gal...
Todos nós vamos ter cancêr ou uma doença cardíaca. há, basicamente, dois tipos de seres humanos, pessoas que refreiam suas emoções e pessoas que as liberam, rugindo. introvertidos e extrovertidos, se...
Todas as histórias de amor são potenciais histórias de dor. Se não no princípio, depois. Se não para um, para o outro. Às vezes para ambos.
There is only good vodka and very good vodka—there is no such thing as bad vodka.