Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their comings and goings into our bodies, their rhythms into our bones.

A woman's body is the gate to this life. A man's body is the gate to the next life.

You must create your own world. I'm responsible for my world.

I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.

A woman may not hit a ball stronger than a man, but it is different. I prize that difference.

He had heard that women often love plain ordinary men, but he did not believe it, because he judged by himself and he could only love beautiful mysterious exceptional women.