"Beauty comes to us more readily on a full belly."
- Regina O'Melveny
"I thought of the old proverb: Where there are three physicians, there are two atheists."
"It is only the rooms of the present I wish to inhabit."
"Yet there in the library, Hamish and I climbed the bright ladder of the body, as if it were sky and we a deafening. twisting flock of birds that could never fall to earth."
"The recitation of grievances was strange balm."