“Heat and dryness frightens me, like skeletal shapes of war, two of them look doomed and challenge the peace blazing.”

“Sometimes peace looks like war, you cannot tell them apart.”

“Let dangers go; thy war shall be with me,But such a war, as breaks no bonds of peace.Speak thou fair words, I'll cross them with fair words;Send thou sweet looks, I'll meet them with sweet looks;Write loving lines, I'll answer loving lines;Give me a kiss, I'll countercheck thy kiss.Be this our warring peace, or peaceful war.”

“In love there are two evils: war and peace.”

“They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything.”

“Even for those who dislike champagne, myself among them, there are two champagnes one can't refuse: Dom Perignon and the even superior Cristal, which is bottled in a natural-colored glass that displays its pale blaze, a chilled fire of such prickly dryness that, swallowed, seems not to have been swallowed at all, but instead to have turned to vapors on the tongue and burned there to one damp sweet ash.”