“Rejection is a challenge.”

“If achieving a desired goal was easy why would anyone bother. There'd be no fun.”

“If the voice was meant to be silent we wouldn't have ears for listening.”

“Reality is changing Viena. You can not stop the cycle.”

“Constantly downcast leads to the death bed.”

“Doubt youd find anyone as dashingly charming as me”

“Above his head at street level, he saw an angled aileron of a scarlet Porsche, its jaunty fin more or less at the upper edge of his window frame. A pair of very soft, clean glistening black shoes a...”

“As we stood there, chest high in water, I felt like I was in the middle of my own romance novel.”

“I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express my...”

“If you want romance, fuck a journalist.”

“That's the thing with keeping up appearances, Rose; people will do anything to get one and anything to keep one.”

“I had never seen the end of day and the beginning of the night greet each other. We were caught in the loveliness between the two. A House Like a Lotus”