“The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship.”
“That odd alchemy of married love - passion, betrayal, fury, kindness, and companionship - lay there exposed between them.”
“Reading has given me more satisfaction than anything else.”
“Please don't forget me, because the possibility of that hurts more than anything else.”
“With Marguerite, he wanted only time—more and more time—and he was granted it, nighttimes and daytimes and nighttimes again.”
“The bar . . . is an exercise in solitude. Above all else, it must be quiet, dark, very comfortable - and, contrary to modern mores, no music of any kind, no matter how faint. In sum, there should be no more than a dozen tables, and a client that doesn't like to talk.”