“There are worse things than a lie and there are better things than the truth!”
“Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper.”
“When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them.”
“We are more curious about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake.”
“It's all right, darling. I'll finish the financial report on my own. I can think clearly before sex and stay awake afterwards. That's one of the nice things about being a woman.”