“Best of all she liked his eyes, such a translucent golden brown, and so laughing.”

“..the best is only bought at the cost of great pain...or so says the legend”

“For the best is only bought at the cost of great pain.”

“...she looked like the sort of woman most men would want to get to know because they weren't sure what went on inside.”

“There is a legend about a bird which sings just once in its life, more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. From the moment it leaves the nest it searches for a thorn tree, and does not rest until it has found one. Then, singing among the savage branches, it impales itself upon the longest, sharpest spine. And, dying, it rises above its own agony to outcarol the lark and the nightingale. One superlative song, existence the price. But the whole world stills to listen, and God in His heaven smiles. For the best is only bought at the cost of great pain… Or so says the legend.”

“The best thing about being 40 is that you can appreciate 25-year-old men more.”

“But not we men. We weren't fit to be told. For so you women think, and hug your mysteries, getting your backs on us for the slight God did in not creating you in His image.”