“He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. I could have looked at him forever.”

“Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.”

“Better than chocolate, being with you last night. Silly me, I thought that nothing was better than chocolate.”

“They know that tragedy is not glamorous. They know it doesn't play out in life as it does on a stage or between the pages of a book. It is neither a punishment meted out nor a lesson conferred. Its...”

“When blood dripped on my bare feet or poured over the book I was reading, he was kind.”

“See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be”

“Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves”

“Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.”

“She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire.”