Every man is a chauvinist, however much he wishes to be otherwise.

People don't get to our ages without having pasts. I'm more interested in the future.

...the collective wisdom of humanity [is] enshrined in its poetry.

Falling in love was easy-when romantic attraction was combined with hungry, unsated desire, they formed a glamorous, glittering bauble as fragile as it was alluring, a bauble that could shatter as soon as it was grasped.Tenderness was a different story. It had staying power and the promise of a future.