I don't mean just you and me. Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you they're ready to le… - James Salter

They ate dinner in silence. Her husband did not look at her. her face annoyed him, he did not know why. She could be good-looking but there were times when she was not. Her face was like a series of photographs, some of which ought to have been thrown away. Tonight it was like that.

They had a great deal in common, Bowman a little defiantly said. What they had in common was more vital than similar interests — it was wordless understanding and accord. It was love, the furnace into which everything is dropped.

"Greatness is something which can be regarded in a number of ways," he said. "It is, of course, the apotheosis, man raised to his highest powers, but it also can be, in a way, like insanity, a certain kind of imbalance, a flaw, in most cases a beneficial flaw, an anomaly, an accident." "Well, many great men are eccentric," Viri said, "even narrow." "Not necessarily narrow so much as impatient, intense."