To rip off a piece of lover's temper was a pleasure in her deepest vein of enjoyment. - Saul Bellow

One must bear in mind the odd angle or slant that the rays of love have to take in order to reach a heart like mine.

Maybe America didn't need art and inner miracles. It had so many outer ones. The USA was a big operation, very big. The more it, the less we.

"But privately when things got very bad I often looked into books to see whether I could find some helpful words, and one day I read, "The forgiveness of sins is perpetual and righteousness first is not required." This impressed me so deeply that I went around saying it to myself. But then I forgot which book it was."