“Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.”

“Thing in good marriage is not happiness but stabilty .”

“Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.”

“Remember that everything that is good, whatever it's origin, comes from the holy spirit.”

“My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic.”

“She always had a headache, or it was too hot, always, or she pretended to be asleep, or she had her period again, her period, always her period. So much so that Dr. Urbino had dared to say in class, only for the relief of unburdening himself without confession, that after ten years of marriage women had their periods as often as threes times a week.”

“I never used to write down all the ideas that occur to me while writing. I believed if I forgot them they were not important, and the ones that really mattered were those I remembered. Now I write them all down.”