“Love was love, one could find it with anyone, one could find it anywhere. It was just that you could never keep it. Not unless you were ready to die for it.”

“In the South of Spain, one could look to vice as quickly as to virtue for a sense of tradition.”

“You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while it's unimportant.”

“I could not begin to mourn Deborah or my mind would ride off with me. There was nothing so delicate in all the world as one's last touch of control.”

“One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.”

“Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way.p.207”

“Every moment of one’s existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.”