Michael Nava

"We all love according to our natures."

"Now I understand that it isn't up to her to be who I might want her to be. It's up to me to love her for who she is."

"Patricia Ryan was a tall, beautiful woman about whom many stories were told, some of them true."

"The principle of all existence is cause and effect. Scientific knowledge illuminates causes so that men are not condemned to go on living ignorantly in effects."

"I walked over to the railing and watched the traffic stream up and down the boulevard. A blond in a Jeep cruised by slowly, his cassette player blaring a disco tune from the seventies. Ah, the hunt, I…"

"The room took shape in all its squalor: clothes scattered everywhere; plates of half-finished meals; the long table used as a desk, every inch of its surface covered by moldering documents, books, and…"

"He had the open, cheerful, rather self-satisfied countenance of someone upon whom life had made very few demands."

"I know that a man's honour means nothing to your generation, but it is all that a man possesses in this life."