“Doomed people celebrate peace with sky bombs.”

“Perhaps living in fear can drive all devils out of a person.”

“It was mathematical, marriage. Not, as one might expect, additional. It was exponential.”

“It as mathematical, marriage, not, as one might expect, additional; it was exponential. This one man, nervous in a suite a size too small for his long, lean self, this woman, in a green lace dress ...”

“Life was rich with possibility, or life was possibly rich...She felt incandescent with the news.Cold sun. Jack in the pulpits nosing out of the still-frozen mud. Lotto lay watching the world increm...”

“Mathilde and Lotto held hands in the taxi going to brunch, communicating, not speaking.”

“Dont work too hard. Try to maintain balance. Dont make work your whole life.”

“The more completely you can be yourself, the more fully and consciously you participate in the world.”

“Let your body work until it is spent, but keep your mind to yourself.”

“The new mythology of love was that it bent to the fashion of the day, obligated to take the shape of doves, lilies, jewels. This is a lie. Love is sometimes as passionate as war.”

“The Fates and Furies, as well as the Graces and Sirens, glide with linked hands over life.”